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In 2022 Health Canada expanded the Special Access Program to include psilocybin. Since then, dozens of Ottawa therapists have begun training in psychedelic assisted therapy.
Clients are showing up from Little Italy, Chinatown, Rockcliffe Park and Overbrook alike, all able to order from the same lab tested menu. This mirrors the same quiet shift covered in Ottawa's quiet mushroom revolution.
The results reported informally in the community match the peer reviewed literature. Sixty seven percent of participants show significant reduction in treatment resistant depression symptoms after two guided sessions.
Eighty percent of terminal cancer patients report reduced existential anxiety and improved quality of life. These are not fringe results anymore.
They are the strongest data we have ever seen for depression and end of life care, and Ottawa's therapist community is taking note, quietly integrating these findings into practice.
Curious readers often ask a more practical follow up question next, whether this kind of use could affect an employment drug test. Our separate article on whether magic mushrooms show up on a drug test in Ontario answers that directly. For the neuroscience behind why guided sessions produce such durable change in the first place, see what magic mushrooms actually do to your brain.