Roland Griffiths, PhD, Pioneer of Psychopharmacologist

To date, my colleagues and I at the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research have shown that psilocybin may have efficacy for treating a wide variety of psychiatric conditions such as psychological distress in patients with a life-threatening cancer diagnosis, alcohol addiction, cigarette addiction, depression, anxiety, and anorexia. It’s curious, almost to the point of being unbelievable, that a single kind of intervention might be efficacious across these widely disparate medical conditions. It’s fascinating and unprecedented within psychiatric treatment with medications. How could that be? And the answer is that there’s a meta story going on here about a change in sense of self and worldview—the ability to let go of old narratives or old beliefs and opening oneself up to alternative ways of thinking and being.

– Roland R. Griffiths PhD –