“…However, past studies of addiction treatment with classic hallucinogens have not assessed participants' experiences quantitatively or investigated the mediational role of dimensions of the experience. As noted above, recent pilot work with psilocybin for cigarette addiction demonstrated that strong mystical-type experiences were associated with greater improvement (Garcia-Romeu et al, 2015). On the other hand, in the recent pilot study of psilocybin for alcohol dependence, both mystical experience and broader measures of the intensity of subjective effects were associated with improvement in drinking (Bogenschutz et al, 2015).…”