Since childhood, Rachael Petersen had lived with an unexplainable sense of grief that no drug or talk therapy could entirely ease. So in 2017 she volunteered for a small clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University that was testing psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, for chronic depression. “I was so depressed,” Ms. Petersen, [...]

A scientist used the psychedelic drug in a quest for enlightenment, and it became the basis for the movie ‘Altered States’ By Steve Hendrix March 7 at 8:18 AM John C. Lilly took his first dose of ketamine to help with his chronic migraine headaches. It worked, and soon Lilly, a renowned counterculture physician [...]

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 19, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Jen Godfrey couldn’t shake the “deep cloud” that lingered even after she found an antidepressant she could tolerate. Then a string of stressors hit — five years of fertility treatment and an 80-pound weight gain during pregnancy that left her with persistent pain; a close relative’s suicide; [...]