Psychedelics

A doctor and a psychologist say Health Canada’s move to allow physicians to request restricted psychedelic drugs for patients as part of their psychotherapy is a positive step toward transforming mental-health care....

New amendment reverses a 2013 Health Canada policy that prevented "a letter of authorization for a new drug that is or that contains a restricted drug." 2021 was a milestone year...

Psychedelic drugs—once promising research subjects that were decades ago relegated to illicit experimentation in dorm rooms—have been steadily making their way back into the lab for a revamped 21st-century-style look....

Psychedelic therapy is the use of plants and compounds that can induce hallucinations to treat mental health diagnoses, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some of the compounds...

In this file photo taken on August 28, 2020, a woman demonstrates what a patient would experience in a therapy room at Field Trip, a psychedelic therapy clinic in Toronto—psychedelics...