New research has revealed an intriguing link between psilocybin – the psychedelic substance in magic mushrooms – and opioid addiction: people who have used psilocybin at some point in their lives are significantly less likely to become addicted t
. This time around, the researchers wanted to try and replicate the results with more recent data, across a larger sample, and with more psychedelics taken into consideration.No such link was found between peyote, mescaline, or LSD and opioid addiction; it appears that there's something about the active compound of magic mushrooms in particular that helps with opioid abuse.
As yet, it's not clear what the potential explanation might be, but scientists have some hypotheses. For example, psilocybin might interfere with the transmission of serotonin and dopamine, neurotransmitters that are connected to addiction in the brain.
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