It turns out that psychedelics aren’t just good for turning into an elf and jousting a car. Psychiatrists, psychologists and specialists in addiction and recovery from traumatic experiences have been investigating the use of hallucinogens in treatment programs, and the...

For me, ayahuasca was as good as therapy. Here's what the science says PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — It was a weird place. The landscape was perfectly flat and seemed to stretch for thousands of miles in every direction. There were...

After more than 30 years in which psychedelics were considered dangerous remnants of the 1960s, the drugs have begun to make a comeback, this time as potential remedies for a host of tough-to-treat maladies. Pilot studies and clinical trials...