Australia's medical regulator has approved the use of psychedelics to treat some mental health conditions, making the country one of the first in the world to 'officially recognise MDMA and psilocybin as medicines'.
The trial aims to follow a group of 160 people over the course of 12 months after treatment with psilocybin, assessing how effective the substance is and how long its effects last.
"The science is at a point where we can say it is too early to be prescribing MDMA for PTSD patients," he said. "Recognising that illegal drugs like MDMA and psilocybin have medical utility is an important step in drug policy reform, however, the safe provision of these treatments requires extensive training, which is why they have been limited to clinical research in Australia to date," he said.
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