With an upswing in studies focusing on psychedelic drugs, dissociative anesthetics, and phenethylamines, it seems that psycho-pharmacological researchers have been increasingly exploring alternative therapies to treat mental illnesses, both in lieu of and in addition to more traditional medications such as SSRIs.
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But unlike treatments involving drugs such as ketamine, MDMA, and psilocybin, which have been subject to increasing amounts of research and attention of late, studies involving mescaline and mental illness have been few and far between.
Mescaline is a naturally occurring alkaloid derived from the Peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii) that produces psychedelic effects when consumed such as euphoria, visual hallucinations, and uncontrollable
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