Psychedelics to treat eating disorders?

Eating disorders are extremely complicated to treat, leaving people potentially struggling for decades. But there's a new contender in the treatment field: psychedelic drugs.

Sarah-Catherine Rodan talks us through how the active ingredient in magic mushrooms – used in a very particular way – could help people with anorexia.

The nature of this talk means we're going to be hearing about eating disorders, so if that's not going to be helpful for you, feel free to skip this episode.

Speaker:

Sarah-Catherine Rodan, PhD Candidate

InsideOut Institute and Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics

University of Sydney

Host:

Tegan Taylor

Producer:

Tegan Taylor, Gemma Conroy

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