The use of psychedelics has been subtly shifting from hardcore festival-goers and curious tech bros towards a demographic closer to home. As science decodes the drugs’ therapeutic powers, WH meets the women taking an illicit trip to navigate the ups and downs of their middle decades

What the scientists are saying… Eye drops ...

Have you seen anything online that’s made you feel worried?” This is the question Paula*, a leading child psychologist who’d rather not be named, always asks when she first sees children. A few years

DON’T WANT TO TAKE SLEEPING PILLS Q My daughter was recently involved in a car accident and she’s still in intensive care. It’s all been very distressing. My GP prescribed me some sleeping pills, but

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From Regency medicine men to the technicolour world of The Beatles, the history of psychedelic mushrooms is richer than we might expect, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee