Magic Mushrooms Might Be the Next Frontier in Mental Health Care

Stacy Fischer, an inpatient palliative care physician and researcher at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says the fear of death is one of the most challenging things her patients face. “Worse, we don’t have therapies to help with demoralization,” Fischer says. “Antidepressants don’t work in this population.”