Did you know that animals are affected by emotional disease... just like humans?  Could psychedelic medicine offer novel solutions to animal behavioral conditions such as canine PTSD or canine separation anxiety?  As you watch and participate in the emerging psychedelic ecosystems...keep your best friend's mind in mind.

Increased interest in and access to psychedelic substances by human users increases the risk and frequency of exposures in animals and the veterinary industry should be prepared.  Similar the increase in animal exposures that occurred as human interest and access to cannabis increased, rises in animal exposures as to psychedelic substances are anticipated. Harm reduction principles developed to safeguard animals from accidental overdoses and guide effective research in the veterinary cannabis industry are applicable to the growing psychedelic industry.

Whether exposures are intentional (research or therapeutic) or accidental, veterinary medicine practitioners must be aware of the potential for and prepared to respond to these exposures in our patients. Do you know of an animal exposed to a psychedelic substance?  Complete the exposure survey, here: https://www.veterinarypsy.org/survey-exposure.

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