The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
There are highly trained guides, meaning people to direct people through the experience. As Matthew Johnson has told me, there is the occurrence from time to time of people having so-called bad trips of having anxiety attacks during the hallucinations and all that. And they have ways to mitigate that and deal with that because the guides are trained.
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But the guide's role is to keep the person safe, but also to encourage them to let go and move through that experience to experience the anxiety, allow it to peak, allow them to see that they're not going to die from that anxiety, they're not going to dissolve.
I think this is one of the biggest and most important reasons for having well-trained guides who really understand the contour of the psychedelic journey, but are also trained in how to help somebody with their anxiety in real-time while they're under the effects of psilocybin.