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The Deadly Toll of the Controlled Substances Act on Mental Health Treatments

Let me put it another way: the United States government spent more than fifty years making it functionally impossible to study drugs that millions of people were already using, that indigenous cultures had employed for centuries, and that early research before the Controlled Substances Act was passed in 1970 had flagged as potentially valuable for mental health treatment. Then they were shocked, shocked, to discover that people were self-medicating with them anyway.

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