BBC World har skrevet en artikel om et forsøg med at anvende psilocybin i behandling af OCD. Der har været en del kritik af at man ikke har gjort forsøget double-blind, så man kunne teste forsøget for placebo effekt. En del af forsøgspersonerne havde en positiv effekt af behandling. Det er 30 år siden man sidst har testet psilocybin i kliniske forsøg.
The need for more treatment options and anecdotal reports of OCD patients undergoing periods of remission after using hallucinogens led Moreno and colleagues to give psilocybin to nine people who had had not responded to other treatments. The patients did see a significant reduction in symptoms for up to 24 hours after they were given psilocybin even on the lowest dose. But because there was no group given a different drug or no drug at all to compare them to, the benefits could have been simply due to care and attention from the researchers.
Kilde: Psychedelic drug ‘hope for OCD’, BBC, 11 december 2006 Se desuden: Purpose and objectives of the study: Effects of Psilocybin in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Principal Investigators: Francisco A. Moreno, MD, Pedro Delgado, MD, Alan J. Gelenberg, MD; University of Arizona The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry: Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of Psilocybin in 9 Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Francisco A. Moreno, Christopher B. Wiegand, E. Keolani Taitano, and Pedro L. Delgado; vol 67, 2006, no 11, p. 1735
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