One pill helped Alana beat a near-lifelong smoking addiction.
It wasn’t a traditional medicine — the kind you may hear about from your doctor and commercials (at least not yet). It was psilocybin, the psychedelic compound taken from magic mushrooms. And based on a still-too-small but growing body of research, Alana’s experience could be just the beginning of a promising treatment for smoking — which still kills more than 480,000 Americans each year — and other debilitating conditions.
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