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High dose psilocybin shows similar antidepressant effects to escitalopram (www.news-medical.net)

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

only high dose psilocybin performed better than placebo in escitalopram trials on the HAMD-17 scale, showing a small effect size (standardised mean difference 0.3), which is similar to that of current antidepressant drugs.

I mean. Ask people if they want to eat mushrooms once a month and have a pleasant experience, or take antidepressants everyday and get a whole host of life effecting side effects....

Not even getting into the price of both treatments...

It doesn't have to be more effective to be a valid treatment, there's a whole bunch of negatives that go with the other options