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LINK Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube

A fun look at psychedelics used as a part of therapy ...

snytiger6 9 Feb 11
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If a patent is approved for psychedelics then, you can be sure licenses will be sold and it will become a billion dollar industry.

Betty Level 8 Feb 11, 2024

Not necessarily. In watching my first thought was that if only tow months treatment can cure a person, that is a hell of a lot of anti-depressants that won't get sold. I expect there will be a great deal of resistance to psychedelics by drug companies that make anti-depressants, and there may also be resistance from companies that make money off of addiction recovery, as they will have fewer repeat customers as well.

There is a great potential for societal benefits, but also a great potential for losses in profits, and sadly out society is more motivated by profits than any other consideration.

That being said, I really hope they do approve this kind of treatment. I am just not all that optimistic that it will really happen, and if it does happen, then I am not so optimistic it will be done in a way that best benefits society, but rather it will be done in a way that best benefits making profits.

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