Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Psychedelics are widely used outside clinical settings.We need psychedelic epidemiology to learn more about the risks and benefits of recreational use.In their article titled 'Persistent Altered States: Psychological Treatment of Psychedelic Adverse Effects' , Holmøy and Andersen (2025) present a clinically focused overview of the phenomenology and symptoms of mental health problems a er psychedelic use, as well as challenges in and recommendations for psychotherapeutic work on such problems.As a researcher in psychedelic epidemiology, I wish to comment on their important article by taking a wider view, from the clinical difficulties they describe to the millions of people who use psychedelics every year in the wild; an uncontrolled experiment on a vast scale, outside the clinic and without the guardrails of clinical trials.
DOI: 10.52734/suhe2643
Author: Otto Simonsson
Institution: Karolinska Institutet
Language: Norwegian Bokmål
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7223174192