Two later-stage trials investigating LSD for treating anxiety are due to conclude in 2026, which could lead to the drug being ...

Bill Gates once revealed that the same person who challenged his intellect as a teenager also pushed him into experimenting ...

Silicon Valley has a long history with psychedelics, and some of its best-known leaders have tried, like Bill Gates, Sam ...

There is such a thing as a bad trip. But how long do the effects of an LSD overdose last? And are they always so terrible? Now, by analyzing the bizarre accidental overdoses of three women, scientists ...

A new clinical trial underway in the Lowcountry is drawing attention for its unconventional — and potentially groundbreaking ...

The study enrolled 198 adults with anxiety at 22 sites across the U.S. Once a symbol of 1960s counterculture, the drug lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD, is emerging from research labs ...

There are hundreds of trials exploring the medical potential of psychedelics. We identified the most important ones.

For the first time since the 1970s, researchers are being allowed to study the potential medical properties of the most tightly controlled substances around. But it's not easy. By Shaunacy Ferro ...

Whenever you have caffeine, do you get so amped up that you have to be scraped off the ceiling? Hopefully, the answer is no to both. There’s the full-blown experience of consuming drugs like alcohol ...

The drug, as well as a placebo, was given to 20 healthy volunteers with previous experience taking psychedelics. Their brains were then imaged inside an fMRI scanner to visualize their brain activity.

May didn’t notice much with the first dose of LSD. She felt good, and she got a lot accomplished, and that was all. It was the day after that things really clicked. She felt even better, and she got a ...