Progress Toward A Safer Psychedelic Drug To Treat Depression And Addiction

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Root extracts from the African shrub Iboga, have long been used in traditional healing rituals, and more recently as an experimental treatment for depression and to reduce drug cravings in addiction. Scientists now are working on a version of the extract that doesn

A synthetic version of the psychedelic drug ibogaine appears to relieve depression and addiction without producing hallucinations or other dangerous side effects — at least in rodents.

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