Ernesto Londoño’s ‘Trippy’ Takes a Journalistic, and Personal, Tour of Medicinal Psychedelics

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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As the newly named Brazil bureau chief for the New York Times, Ernesto Londoño had hit a journalistic zenith. Yet, he had never been more depressed. Contemplating suicide and eager for a way out of his sadness, Londoño signed up for an Amazonian ayahuasca retreat. He was initially skeptical of the drug’s ability to alter his mental health trajectory, but ultimately that experience ended up changing Londoño’s life. That story centers his new book, “Trippy,” which also looks at the promise and peril of medicinal psychedelics. Guests: Ernesto Londoño, author, "Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics"; national correspondent, the New York Times; Londoño has reported from Iraq and Afghanistan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:34.1	When Ernesto Londonio, a national correspondent for the New York Times, signed up for a psychedelic retreat. He was on the brink of suicide. He hoped nine days in the Brazilian rainforest on hallucinogens
1:39.8	would offer reprieve from debilitating depression. It was that and so much more.
1:45.3	He chronicles his personal journey and explores how and why psychedelics are being used to treat mental illness.
1:51.3	His new book is Trippy, The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics.
1:55.6	That's all coming up next, right after this news.
2:15.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Leslie McClurg in for Alexis Madrigal.
2:18.9	Recently, I attended a national health conference,
2:23.7	and really everyone there, researchers, public health officials, journalists, they were all talking about psychedelics and their promise because the research looks really good on how these drugs
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