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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Could a Psychedelic Save Your Life

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This week on To the Best of Our Knowledge, back in the sixties, LSD was all the rage — not just in the counterculture but also in psychiatric clinics. Then psychedelics were outlawed and decades of research vanished. Now, psychedelic science is back — and the early results are extraordinary. A single dose of psilocybin can help people with addictions, PTSD and end-of-life anxiety. We’ll examine this revolution in medicine, and explore the connections between psychedelics and mystical experience.

TTBOOK is a nationally syndicated, Peabody award-winning radio show where long-form interviews help fuel deep insights into our world. The show offers conversations with novelists and poets, scientists and software engineers, journalists and historians, filmmakers and philosophers, artists and activists—anyone with a big idea and a passion to have a creative and engaging conversation about it.