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abuse of psychedelics, low risk of, 50
Acid Tests, 184, 206
active placebos, psychedelics as, 159
Adamic moments, 25
addiction, 358–75
and autobiographical narratives, 387–88, 391
and awe-inspiring experiences, 373–75
and ayahuasca, 369n
banality of insights after treatments, 361–62, 363–64
and default mode network, 387–88
depression’s links to, 383
and ego dissolution, 271, 366
and excess of order in brain, 313, 329, 385
and mental time travel, 387
and negative thinking habits, 383
Nutt’s conclusions on, 300n
and overview effect, 359–60
and rat park experiment, 372–73