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by wolco5 1978 days ago
I've seen this happen and the entire process of adding new drugs and waiting a week or more between visits seems cruel.
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Lots of psychoactive medications take days or weeks to build up in the body to the point of effectiveness. They're finding out neat things about esketamine and psilocybin, but in general a large enough dose of a mood-altering drug to take immediate effect is a bad or at least very risky thing.