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REDISCOVERING ANCIENT PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS

Jeeshan Chowdhury
FOUNDER and CEO, JOURNEY COLAB

IF YOU ARE SUFFERING—IF YOU live with depression, anxiety, addiction or other mental health issues—there really is hope. Psychiatry has many effective tools, from medication and talk therapy to a range of behavioral treatments that have helped millions of people. Doctors wish they had more tools. The last major new class of drugs—antidepressants like Prozac, Lexapro and Zoloft—came in the 1980s.

But maybe there are other answers—much older ones, discovered by Indigenous

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