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Podcast: Mind Body Health & Politics
Episode: Dr. Harriet De Wit on Amphetamines, MDMA, and Surprising New Microdosing Results
Description: Why is MDMA so effective at treating PTSD?Does microdosing LSD affect depressed individuals differently than those with a more positive outlook?Some of us have been waiting for answers to these kinds of questions about psychedelics for more than 50 years. As a young academic in the 1960s, I had my own life-changing experiences with psychedelics, which set me on a new career path as a clinical psychologist. But like many of my generation, I watched with dismay as these powerful tools were demonized and criminalized in the decades that followed, driven underground b...