The matchup: Two doses of psilocybin, the active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” against a six-week course of the popular antidepressant escitalopram, often sold as Lexapro or Cipralex.

Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Psilocybin is the hallucinogenic substance found in “magic mushrooms” and the subject of many studies as a potential ...

But what is really needed is a comparison of the long-term effect of psilocybin with another treatment (an antidepressant) or a placebo. Ideally, neither participants nor staff should be aware of ...

There’s a growing market for gummies, chocolates, and other products that claim to contain psychedelic mushrooms and promise consumers a new—and legal—way to get high. Psilocybin ...

York police have seized approximately 100 pounds of magic mushrooms, saying the discovery is “one of the largest psilocybin lab operations uncovered.” The street value of the seized drugs is ...

If Question 4 passes on Nov. 5, Massachusetts would permit adults to grow, possess and use psychedelic mushrooms, mescaline, ibogaine and dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which is the active ingredient ...

Not enough to draw conclusions It would be tempting to conclude from this study that psilocybin works just as well as ...

An Austrian man amputated his penis with a blunt axe after consuming a large dose of psilocybin mushrooms, storing its fragments in a jar with soil and dirty snow. Doctors were mostly able to ...