Altered states: Is it time to change our mind about psychedelics?
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It was suggested reading for her neuroscience degree, Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, that first opened Melissa Warner’s mind to the potential of psychedelics in medicine.
“Being a nerdy girl, I wasn’t even aware that psychedelics were illicit drugs when I read it. But I then found modern research echoed Huxley’s words,” says Ms Warner, who is the education officer for Mind Medicine Australia, a registered charity set up to facilitate the development of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.