Drugs like cannabis and LSD can have more uses than just a party trip.
ketamine, cannabis, LSD, magic mushrooms, and MDMA—it’s a list of substances you’d expect to find in a festival-goer’s purse rather than a GP’s briefcase. But that may be about to change.
At the moment we do not know an adequate solution for many psychological problems. For example, a third of people with depression do not recover after treatment. Kim Kuypers, a psychology researcher at Maastricht University, therefore advocates other methods. Pills that have so far only been used for a pleasant evening might offer a solution. This also applies to problems such as stress, anxiety and addiction disorders.
In Have fun or get well Kuypers takes you into the science and history of these psychedelics. You have to pay attention, because the material is deep, but that makes this a very comprehensive handbook on how drugs work.
