The History of Psychedelics in Psychiatry

<p>When I was a child growing up in Mexico, drugs were not a recreational pastime with the people with whom I associated. Yes, there was alcohol, tobacco, and pot, but hard drugs were simply an export to the intoxicated North. Other than some traditional medicines such as peyote and mushrooms, which were the property of shamans and other indigenous people, psychedelics, as they eventually came to be called, were unknown to me.</p> <p>However, the reality is that these substances have been part of medicine for thousands of years. Even Western medicine was deep into the study of these substances before the United States and many other countries deemed them illegal. Many years later, they are making a comeback, and some say they might even be the future of mental health treatments.</p> <p><a href="https://lauroap.medium.com/the-history-of-psychedelics-in-psychiatry-934a6eb80695"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>