Psychedelics could treat some of the worst chronic pain in the world

Decades of citizen science are finally translating into clinical trials for psychedelic pain treatments.

Here’s another strange and under-studied prospect of psychedelics: a world without severe chronic pain.

For Court Wing, a former martial artist and CrossFit trainer, the most surprising thing about participating in a 2020 clinical trial at NYU for psilocybin and major depressive disorder wasn’t that his depression — which had resisted treatment for over five years — disappeared.