LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), also called “acid,” is a type of synthetic and mind-altering substance (psychedelic). This belongs to a class of drugs called hallucinogens. When you take LSD, even ...

A recent study published in the British Journal of Pharmacology looked into how psychedelics like LSD can affect the biological endocannabinoid system, otherwise targeted by cannabis compounds, which ...

When you take a drug, where in your body does it actually go? For most medications, scientists can make only educated guesses about the answer to this question. Traditional methods can measure the ...

New treatments for mental health and behavioral disorders are desperately needed. Rates of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and substance use disorders soared during the pandemic, and traditional ...

A man in a white lab coat is out of focus, his hand reaches forward into focus, holding a small device that looks a little like a USB drive. Rice University PhD student Chris Wright holds the implant.

We are rutted in a deepening mental health crisis that is shortening our lifespans and undercutting the economy. The World Health Organization estimates that incidence of conditions such as depression ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to author Virginia Sole-Smith about the future of the body positivity movement in the wake of weight loss drugs like Ozempic. It's taken some people years to work on loving ...

In the mid-2010s, police body cameras started to become mainstream in the U.S., with almost half of police departments adopting them by 2016. But the technology came with a steep learning curve for ...