Kicking The Habit With 'Shrooms

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🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Magic mushrooms — they're not just for getting weird with your friends. Researchers are increasingly looking at psychedelics to treat conditions such as depression and addiction.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:06.6	Hey everybody, welcome to the first episode of Shortwave, NPR's New Daily Science Podcast.
0:12.7	I'm your host, Maddie Safaya, nice to meet you.
0:15.4	And today I want to introduce you to Karine Chen McGlocklin.
0:18.8	I started smoking the summer of after my freshman year in college.
0:24.9	Karine's a semi-retired social worker in Baltimore.
0:28.2	You know, this is 1971.
0:30.8	Everyone smoked.
0:32.0	She's smoked for over 40 years.
0:34.4	And she's tried to quit a lot, like 20 or 30 times.
0:38.9	But she's always gone back.
0:40.5	It's my friend.
0:41.7	It's one of my oldest years friends.
0:45.5	You know, it was there for me.
0:48.2	And to not have that relationship was very, very scary.
0:53.5	Then she heard about this clinical trial to treat nicotine addiction
0:57.0	with something a little unusual.
0:59.6	Had you ever done mushrooms before in your life, like for fun?
1:02.9	No.
1:03.9	Mm-mm, mm-mm.
1:05.3	No.
1:07.0	Well, she's done them now.
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