Psychedelic therapy is emerging as a promising new treatment for depression, anxiety, addiction, and other mental health issues [1]. Many proponents are even envisioning a world in which psychedelic therapy, which is administered once or twice over the course of a month would replace the current status-quo of taking an SSRI daily over the course of months or years. For this to happen psychedelic therapy needs to be broadly accessible — both financially and logistically. Unfortunately that isn’t yet the case. What a typical psychedelic therapy treatment consists of today is often a preliminary introductory session with a therapist on the first day followed by a second day of taking the drug and having the “trip” experience under the supervision of a therapist which is then followed by a third day of working again with a therapist to integrate the insights gained from the experience into one’s life.
How to Resolve This Famous Statistics Paradox
The above is a pretty old question that I recently saw resurface on Twitter. Since I disagree with the answer given there, I figured…