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April 23, 2013 09:03 pm PDT

The science mystery behind a psychedelic HIVAIDSdrug

Some patients taking antiretroviral medications for HIV/AIDS receive the efavirenz, marketed under the commercial names Sustiva and Stocrin. According to a report in the LA Times by Melissa Healy, it has an "LSD-like interaction" with brain receptors governing serotonin activity. That may explain why roughly half of patients taking efavirenz at the prescribed dose have [...]



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