Studying Psychedelics As Medicine: UK University Offers Postgrad Course On Clinical Use

The University of Exeter is launching a new postgraduate program on psychedelics, called "Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture."

The program aims to train therapists, mental health advocates, and healthcare workers on how to safely work with psilocybin, LSD, MDMA, and other psychoactive drugs in therapeutic work.

• It also aims to normalize the psychedelic medicine community, spread science-approved information on psychedelics, and pave the way for other programs.
• The program addresses the importance of decolonizing psychedelic research and includes existing psychedelic therapies, psychiatry and neuroscience, and philosophy.

The global psychedelic healthcare market is projected to be worth $8.3 billion by 2028, reported High Times.

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