New pharmacy professor advances mental health policy research

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce a new Office of Community Safety on Thursday, a step towards fulfilling his campaign pledge to install a new city department to handle responses to mental health crises rather than leave that ...

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce a new Office of Community Safety on Thursday, a step toward fulfilling his campaign pledge to install a new city department to handle responses to mental health crises rather than leave that ...

The study findings may spark treatment innovations for depression and anxiety.

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM A new clinical trial from Johns Hopkins University produced results that surprised even the researchers behind it. Participants who took a single dose of psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, had more than six times greater odds of being cigarette-free at the six-month mark compared to those using nicotine [...] The post A single dose of psilocybin gave smokers six times better odds of quitting than the patch first appeared on The Optimist Daily