Study of psilocybin as treatment of depression halted by drug laws

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9. You know, that's a good point. It is a disease.

And needs the same kind of compassionate treatment.

But at the same time, when an addiction has hijacked a person's mind, they won't see that they need help until they reach rock bottom. We need the power to reach and and demand help for them, or to nip the whole thing in the bud with education. The former can only come from declaring at some point that they've lost certain rights to make decisions for themselves, as the addiction is clouding their judgement.

Maybe addiction treatment could be part of a comprehensive mental health reform package. There's a point with addictions where it seems to make sense to me to declare somebody temporarily mentally incompetent, until they can clean up their act.