• Ab_intra@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Makes sense if they want to study it further… It’s not like a great idea to just start providing this treatment if they are not sure it’s beneficial or even dangerous. But I have high hopes for it.

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        3 months ago

        Exactly. Up until the early 80’s it was used to treat patients in psychiatric wards. Then Reagan squashed it.

        John Hopkins is one of the few research hospitals still allowed to experiment with it, along with psilocybin, and LSD. They have for many years declared positive results with patients who suffered from PTSD, depression, anxiety, etc.

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      3 months ago

      Pffft. Next up, FDA declines to approve aspirin for headaches. Give me a break. The whole rent-seeking bureaucracy around American medicine is ridiculous.

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        3 months ago

        As someone with a chronic disease.

        Bodies like the FDA are needed. Otherwise you get spammed with a million treatments from your doctor whose payed off by pharmaceuticals to sell treatments even if they don’t work.

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          3 months ago

          While I agree the FDA has a history of caving to outside business interests.

          Otherwise you get spammed with a million treatments from your doctor whose payed off by pharmaceuticals to sell treatments even if they don’t work.

          That already happens.