SIDEBAR. Here is a useful overview of the terminology in this area: https://restore-mentalhealth.com/psychotropic-psychedelics-psychoactive/

Karl thanks.

My understanding is that psychedelic drugs are the new enthusiasm as the psychotropic drugs proved a failure. My contention though, dealing directly with patients is that these drugs have various effects not recorded by the medical profession, in thrall to the pharmaceutical companies.

Karl,

If you review the psychedelic drugs, each has been regularly employed in date rapes. So what purpose do they have here?

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Ljubomir

The group never or rarely genuinely consulted are those receiving the drugs. Their experiences tend to be ignored. Otherwise, experiments are performed on small mammals, rodents. Now if, as I advise, the patient is effected psychologically, what good is that as these effects are hardly to be revealed by these experiments,

Psychological effects:

paranoia, sexual obsession, failure of moral judgements, lack of concentration, inability to follow through and in some extreme cases short term memory deterioration.