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

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.

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.

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.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interests: No relevant interests to declare by the authors of this paper.

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