Psilocybin, the psychedelic compound in magic mushrooms, may help people with alcohol dependencies give up drinking
compound in magic mushrooms, may help people with alcohol dependencies abstain from drinking. Nearly half of those who took the drug as part of a 12-week therapy programme no longer drank more than eight months later, according to results from the largest trial to date on psilocybin and addiction.at NYU Langone Health in New York and his colleagues recruited 95 adults who were diagnosed with alcohol dependence.
Everyone in the group went through a 12-week therapy programme. Most weeks, they had a roughly 1-hour long session with a therapist and a psychiatrist where they received cognitive behavioural therapy for alcohol use disorder.In weeks 4 and 8, everyone had an 8-hour session where they were encouraged to lie on a couch, wear an eye mask and listen to music through headphones.
The participants reported how much and how often they drank throughout the study. In the 12 weeks before starting the therapy, participants reported drinking heavily on 53 per cent of days, on average, where heavy drinking was defined as at least four alcoholic drinks a day for women and at least five a day for men. From the start of the study to week 32, the average number of days people reported drinking heavily decreased in both groups, down to 9.
While the mechanism for how psychedelics could treat addiction is still unclear, there are a few possibilities, says
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