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Podcast: Mental Health Training
Episode: My rugby injuries made me suicidal – psychedelic drugs saved me
Description: Lying on a mat around a fire in the Costa Rican jungle, I was too terrified to speak. I had just taken iboga, a psychedelic plant medicine native to Central Africa, in a desperate attempt to avoid taking my own life.
It was 2015, two years after I had retired from international rugby, where I was a celebrated full-back, playing for Glasgow Warriors, Sale Sharks and Toulon, and had represented Scotland in two World Cups.Â
This wasn’t the first time I’d tried psychedelics. I’d tried psilocybin (magic mushrooms) seven years earlier, after a bad concu...