Investigator: Charles Grob, MD, UCLA-Harbor Medical Center – Torrance, CA
Contact: cgob at labiomed.org
Web: JAMA Psychiatry
Sponsor: Heffter
Grob has prepared a study investigating whether anxiety in the dying can be significantly reduced by the appropriate administration of psilocybin. Any attendant reduction in pain will also be measured. This study enrolled 12 participants and is now complete. The researchers have published their results.
- “The Hallucinogenic Way of Dying” Judith Lewis, LA Weekly
- Grob CS, Danforth AL, Chopra GS, Hagerty M, McKay CR, Halberstadt AL, Greer GR. (2010) Pilot Study of Psilocybin Treatment for Anxiety in Patients With Advanced-Stage Cancer. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2010 Sep 6