“…Clearly, future research on the compounds targeting the pain pathways including the cannabinoid and opioid pathways, as suggested by some (Deckman, DeWall, Way, Gilman, & Richman, 2014;Nobile, Lutz, Olié, & Courtet, 2020) are warranted. Fourth, there has been a recent resurgent interest in psychedelic agents for mood and anxiety disorders (Bui, King, & Melaragno, 2019). In line with this, two recent observational studies reported large reductions in grief symptoms in chronically grieving bereaved individuals receiving ayahuasca, a brewed beverage derived from two Amazonian plant species, containing dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and its precursor, during a ceremonial (González et al, 2020).…”