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badchad65 t1_j329efd wrote

Reply to comment by muzak2me in Race and ethnicity appear to play an important a role in the link between psychedelic use and mental health outcomes by chrisdh79

There's been some in specific subtypes of depression (e.g., depression associated with cancer).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27909165/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27909164/

An enormous issue with placebo control is that its exceptionally easy to break the blind. The article in question doesn't appear to be looking at efficacy data though. It's an epidemiological analysis involving self-report use, which is quite different than a clinical trial.

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muzak2me t1_j343lnr wrote

Awesome, thanks for the additional info and links.

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