What 25,000 conversations with a psychedelic helpline show about who seeks help
Who calls a psychedelic helpline? An analysis of nearly five years of calls and texts found that psilocybin dominated, cannabis showed up often, and most callers whose setting was recorded were going through it alone.
A new analysis of over 25,000 conversations with a psychedelic helpline reveals insights into who seeks help during or after a psychedelic experience. The research, published in Science Advances, indicates that distress rates were similar across different substances, once the timing of the call was taken into account. Most callers whose setting was recorded were alone. The open-access dataset also provides a new way to study the impact of individual peer supporters on caller outcomes.
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