Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

"That drug is sort of like the highest rollercoaster at Six Flags in that the velocity in which you are catapulted out of your body and into that psychedelic space is very, very high," explains Dr.

Are hallucinogens' skyrocketing sales arising from a poisonous toad? Ranging from plant drugs, like mushroom-derived psilocybin and cactus-derived peyote, to synthetics like Lysergic acid diethylamide ...

Move over, ayahuasca. Even though celebs like Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox have experienced mind-altering trips on the psychoactive Amazonian tea, there's another, more potent psychedelic that ...

Celebrities including Mike Tyson and HGTV's Christina Hall have previously admitted to using toad venom Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. She ...

In an unusual turn for an unassuming species, a desert amphibian is at the center of both a potential ecological crisis and an evolving question of drug policy. The creature in question is the ...

Victoria Barbara’s life has been split in two: Dark decades of secret misery before she tripped on trendy toad venom — and the enlightened bliss she claims came after. The glamorous influencer with ...

The Sonoran Desert stretches a little more than 100,000 square miles across the hardscrabble terrain of California, Arizona and northwestern Mexico. It’s what’s known as a “hot desert” – defined as ...

Researchers have discovered that use of the synthetic psychedelic 5-methocy-N,-N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) appears to be associated with unintended improvements in self-reported depression and ...