<story><title>Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA</title><url>https://newatlas.com/science/psilocybin-major-depression-mdd-usona-breakthrough-therapy-fda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempsy</author><text>Not to be facetious but why is the legal status of these drugs preventing you from trying them?&lt;p&gt;Ketamine, LSD, shrooms are all accessible, and recreational varieties are not expensive.</text></item><item><author>givinguflac</author><text>While this is a great step forward, it&amp;#x27;s still going to take years for this to be even remotely accessible. I&amp;#x27;ve been in therapy and taking various medications for years and haven&amp;#x27;t found anything that really works, at least for more than a brief period.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t forget esketamine was also granted breakthrough treatment status recently, but I have yet to find a doctor willing to try it because it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;so new&amp;quot;. On top of that, it&amp;#x27;s still outrageously expensive even with insurance, if insurance will even cover it at all because it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;so new&amp;quot; and I haven&amp;#x27;t yet exhausted every compound that&amp;#x27;s ever existed. Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>astura</author><text>This is a ridiculous question, the answer is because they are illegal, of course.&lt;p&gt;Most of us aren&amp;#x27;t willing to risk a criminal record.&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t know where I could obtain such items even if I wanted to buy them. If I can&amp;#x27;t buy something off the shelf at a retail store I&amp;#x27;m simply not going to bother.&lt;p&gt;Sketchy&amp;#x2F;unknown supply chain.&lt;p&gt;Tons of us have jobs (or whole careers!) that we could lose for using illegal drugs, many of those jobs include random drug tests. I&amp;#x27;m not risking my entire fucking livelihood without a damn good reason.</text></comment>
<story><title>Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA</title><url>https://newatlas.com/science/psilocybin-major-depression-mdd-usona-breakthrough-therapy-fda/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tempsy</author><text>Not to be facetious but why is the legal status of these drugs preventing you from trying them?&lt;p&gt;Ketamine, LSD, shrooms are all accessible, and recreational varieties are not expensive.</text></item><item><author>givinguflac</author><text>While this is a great step forward, it&amp;#x27;s still going to take years for this to be even remotely accessible. I&amp;#x27;ve been in therapy and taking various medications for years and haven&amp;#x27;t found anything that really works, at least for more than a brief period.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t forget esketamine was also granted breakthrough treatment status recently, but I have yet to find a doctor willing to try it because it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;so new&amp;quot;. On top of that, it&amp;#x27;s still outrageously expensive even with insurance, if insurance will even cover it at all because it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;so new&amp;quot; and I haven&amp;#x27;t yet exhausted every compound that&amp;#x27;s ever existed. Sigh.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>selectodude</author><text>Not OP, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t even know where to begin trying to source street drugs, nor am I particularly interested in learning.</text></comment>