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Beneath its polished image, the academy hides disturbing practices, using hallucinogens and psychological conditioning to strip students of their trauma — and often, their very sense of self.
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Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
The Native American Church, which is considered the largest Indigenous church in America and is located throughout the Southwest, has been legally using peyote, a hallucinogen, for services since the 1990s.
—Pardis Mahdavi, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2025
The research is so promising, in fact, that health experts, Wall Street investors and others widely believe the Food and Drug Administration eventually will approve some hallucinogens as therapies and, when that happens, there will be a huge market for those treatments.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office attributed his death to an accidental overdose of ketamine, a hallucinogen long known as a party drug that has grown in popularity in recent years as an off-label treatment for depression.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2025
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Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
The Native American Church, which is considered the largest Indigenous church in America and is located throughout the Southwest, has been legally using peyote, a hallucinogen, for services since the 1990s.
—Pardis Mahdavi, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2025
The research is so promising, in fact, that health experts, Wall Street investors and others widely believe the Food and Drug Administration eventually will approve some hallucinogens as therapies and, when that happens, there will be a huge market for those treatments.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office attributed his death to an accidental overdose of ketamine, a hallucinogen long known as a party drug that has grown in popularity in recent years as an off-label treatment for depression.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2025
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“Hallucinogen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hallucinogen. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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hallucinogen
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hal·lu·ci·no·gen
hə-ˈlüs-ᵊn-ə-jən 
: a substance and especially a drug that induces hallucinations
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