Psilocybin
(asked on 20th April 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support he is providing to innovative research into using psilocybin to treat depression.
This question was answered on 27th April 2021
The Department, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has funded or supported various studies into the use of psilocybin to treat depression. The NIHR’s Research Programmes has invested £1.1 million in the study ‘A Feasibility RCT of Single-Dose Psilocybin in Unipolar Depressive Disorder Resistant to Standard Treatments’.