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Comment
. 2015 Sep;29(9):1041-3.
doi: 10.1177/0269881115598338.

Psilocybin, psychological distress, and suicidality

Peter S Hendricks  1 , Matthew W Johnson  2 , Roland R Griffiths  2
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Psilocybin, psychological distress, and suicidality

Peter S Hendricks et al. J Psychopharmacol. 2015 Sep.
No abstract available

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Griffiths is on the Board of Directors of the Heffter Research Institute, which has supported research investigating the therapeutic application of psilocybin.

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