Psilocybin may help cancer patients with depression and anxiety for years
A study hints that a hallucinogen could reshape how people cope with hard diagnoses
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After a dose of psilocybin, people had less anxiety and depression related to their cancer diagnoses in the short term, and the improvement seems to endure.
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