Need for a Public Health Response to the Unregulated Sales of Amanita muscaria Mushrooms

Eric C Leas¹, Nora Satybaldiyeva², Wayne Kepner³, Kevin H Yang⁴, Raquel M Harati², Jamie Corroon⁵, Matthieu Rouffet⁶

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¹ Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California; Qualcomm Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California. Electronic address: ecleas@ucsd.edu.
² Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California.
³ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California.
⁵ Department of Family Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
⁶ Department of Chemistry, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California.

PMID: 38864780
PMCID: PMC11832274
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2024.05.006

Need for a Public Health Response to the Unregulated Sales of Amanita muscaria Mushrooms

Eric C Leas et al. Am J Prev Med. 2024 Sep.

. 2024 Sep;67(3):458-463.

doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2024.05.006. Epub 2024 Jun 10.

Authors

Eric C Leas¹, Nora Satybaldiyeva², Wayne Kepner³, Kevin H Yang⁴, Raquel M Harati², Jamie Corroon⁵, Matthieu Rouffet⁶

Affiliations

¹ Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California; Qualcomm Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California. Electronic address: ecleas@ucsd.edu.
² Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California.
³ Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California.
⁵ Department of Family Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
⁶ Department of Chemistry, Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California.

PMID: 38864780
PMCID: PMC11832274
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2024.05.006

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**Figure 1.. The *Amanita muscaria* mushroom**
Source: Singleton E. *The Story of the Universe: Told by Great Scientists and Popular Authors*. P.F. Collier and Son; 1905.

**Figure 2.. Monthly Google searches for *Amanita muscaria* rise in the United States**
Highlights monthly Google search rates from January 2010 to December 2023 (red line and dots) and expected search rates from January 2023 through December 2023 for the United States (gray line, dots, and polygon). Forecasts were projected through 2023 using an autoregressive integrated moving average model selected by the Hyndman and Khandakar algorithm and monthly trends from January 2010 to December 2022 (see Appendix for further methodological details).

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