Texas Trip: The future of psychedelic therapy was a hot topic at SXSW 2023

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Psychedelics are being used to treat PTSD and substance abuse, even in conservative Texas. Texas psychedelics psychology psychedelictherapy SXSW SXSW2023

According to experts, research on the benefits of hallucinogens was stunted in large part due to President Richard Nixon's war on drugs.

The future envisioned by medical experts and entrepreneurs at SXSW doesn't involve bringing magic mushrooms or blotter acid into dispensaries operating in states that have already legalized recreational cannabis. Instead, they see psychedelic therapy replacing America's dependence on overprescribed antidepressants.

Citing a New York University study, Nichols discussed a patient who used psychedelic therapy to overcome his alcohol dependency. "Meds had never really worked very well, and it [ketamine] was probably the only treatment I've had that seemed to have an immediate benefit," he said.

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