Biden is ‘very open-minded’ about using psychedelic drugs to treat addiction: brother
June 29, 2023
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as posted by the channelPresident Biden’s younger brother revealed Wednesday that he has spoken to the commander in chief about using psychedelic drugs to treat addiction — and that the 80-year-old is “very open-minded” about it.
Frank Biden told Michael Smerconish, host of SiriusXM’s “The Michael Smerconish Program,” that his battle with alcoholism led him to explore the possibility of whether psychedelics — including LSD, ketamine and ayahuasca, which he referred to as “the godfather of them all” — could be used as medicine to treat mental health issues that lead to addiction.
“I have done a great deal of research, because I’m a recovering alcoholic for many, many years,” the 69-year-old first brother told Smerconish.
“I have looked into, as a result of doing lots of research, into early AA [Alcoholics Anonymous], it turns out that Bill Wilson, the founder of AA, although he was sober for many, many, many years, still suffered from major depression, which is, of course, a mental illness, just like having leukemia or any other physical ailment. And he had no solution. He was introduced in the very early years of lysergic acid and he did acid, and the psychedelic experience ameliorated, if not eliminated his depressive symptoms,” Biden explained.
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