Psilocybin In Pandemic Traumatized Healthcare Workers

How I read a theoretically exciting paper.

People love—and I mean LOVE—to share research with me. Hi friends! Welcome to The Frontier Psychiatrists Newsletter. Today, I walk my readers through a recent paper. I want everyone to feel like science is less of a mystery. We can all do a little bullsh*t parsing on our own, fancy degrees or not.

Psilocybin Therapy for Clinicians With Symptoms of Depression From Frontline Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Randomized Clinical Trial

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COVID-19 was a nightmare for many of us, but for modern healthcare workers, it was Stalingrad, Somme, Fallujah, and Cannae. If my children are reading, those are all battles and worse that were very bad.

The question the Study tried to answer— but failed in definitively demonstrating—is if you took individuals exposed to the trauma of Frontline care amid a pandemic, who are currently suffe…