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June 18, 2021

Investors back a new era for mental health

Atai Life Sciences has become the latest psychedelic-drug developer to go public, raising $225m at a $2.6bn valuation.


Half a century ago, research into the use of psychedelic drugs to treat mental health disorders was made illegal in the US and most of the world amid a moral panic about the use of drugs in 1960s counterculture.

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