Looking back on the College on Drug Dependence annual meeting, a number of standout presentations about MDMA and psychedelics (or ‘hallucinogens’ as we scientists call them) spring to mind. Here, I highlight just three of them even though I could spend hours and pages discussing a larger number of fascinating presentations.
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I’ve been at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence annual conference in Puerto Rico all this week. Despite the name, the work isn’t exclusively about drug dependence per se. I think of this meeting as the big conference for people with NIDA funding. There’s been a lot of great work presented here, including a presentation by Roland Griffiths and colleagues on the relationship between psilocybin dose and mystical experience in healthy volunteers. I’ll write a few notes about this and other interesting stuff when I’m on the flight home.
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These only appear off-topic at first — if they ain’t the real topic, I don’t know what is.
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