Fighting Alcoholism Scientists have been working on it for a long time. These studies include different methods such as different therapy techniques, alternative medicine, drug treatments. The latest of these studies shows that a substance in hallucinatory mushrooms may offer the solution.

This substance, called psilocybin, is normally hallucinating mushrooms lies in. According to recent studies, this substance may play an important role in ending the drinking habit, especially when supplemented with oral therapy.

Effective with therapy support

Wednesday JAMA Psychiatry In the study, published in the journal Cell, people with alcohol dependence were divided into two groups. to a group psilocybin while giving drugs to a group that has nothing to do with addiction. Benadryl given. Then the changes in the habits of the two groups were examined.

Researchers used drug therapy in addition to talk therapy. first 4 sessions of therapy The participants were then given two doses of the drug. Four more therapy sessions followed. After the second therapy period, the participants took two more doses of medication and then attended the final four-session therapy sessions.

At the end of the 32-week period, alcoholism decreased in both groups, but this decrease was much greater in the drug user group. Treatment rate in the group using psilocybin 83% while it was 51% in the placebo group. The proportion of people who completely stopped drinking alcohol is in the first group. 48% while it was 24% in the placebo group.