Is DMT the Key to Lasting Depression Relief?

Is DMT the Key to Lasting Depression Relief?

Psychedelic drugs, once the domain of counterculture rebellion, have been steadily gaining legitimacy in the medical world. Now, DMT, the hallucinogen you probably learned about by googling it and getting nothing but links to the Joe Rogan subreddit, is showing some promise as a treatment for depression. In a new study published in Nature Medicine, UK researchers report that a single dose of dimethyltryptamine, administered with psychotherapy, s…

A small clinical trial found that the hallucinogen DMT effectively treats depression

Add DMNews to your Google News feed. Tension: Modern psychiatry has spent decades insisting that depression is a chemical imbalance best corrected by daily medication, yet a new trial suggests that a single dose of one of the most powerful hallucinogens known to science may achieve what years of conventional treatment cannot — and the key variable isn’t pharmacology, it’s transcendence. Noise: The psychedelic therapy movement is caught between …