The New York Times’ Ernesto Londoño Dives Deep Into the Psychedelic Treatment Experience

Ernesto Londoño, a veteran journalist with the New York Times,
was suicidally depressed, living in Brazil, and curious. He had
heard from a psychiatrist at a party about the remarkable and
barely studied benefits of ayahuasca, a psychedelic herbal brew
that has been popular among tribes in South America for a long
time. Being a reporter, he wanted to learn more. Being an
incredibly depressed person, he wanted to try it. His experience
led to a dramatic change in his mental health and an interest in
studying psychedelic treatments in many locations and an interest
in studying the organizations and individuals who administer
them. He writes about all of it in his new book, Trippy:The
Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics.


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