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	Podcast:		The Signal
	Episode:		Tripping as treatment
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:15:00
	Publish Date:		2019-04-07 13:00:00
	Description:		For decades, governments all over the world have given psychedelics like LSD a bad wrap, making it difficult for scientists to study how they work. But in the last few years that’s been slowly changing, and this month the first psychedelic medical trial in Australia gets underway in Melbourne. So what do we know about how psychedelics affect the brain? And could they one day be prescribed by your doctor to treat depression or anxiety? Featured: Martin Williams, postdoctoral researcher, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences David Nutt, Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology, Imperial College London
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