Rick Strassman

Rick Strassman is an American clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the <a href="/facts/University_of_New_Mexico_School_of_Medicine/W2jUUG42">University of New Mexico School of Medicine</a>. He has held a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research at the University of California San Diego and was Professor of Psychiatry for eleven years at the University of New Mexico. After 20 years of intermission, Strassman was the first person in the <a href="/facts/United_States_of_America/P0sCdLe5">United States</a> to undertake human research with <a href="/facts/Psychedelic_drug/aj9GNANW">psychedelic</a>, <a href="/facts/Psychedelics,_dissociatives_and_deliriants/gn35weCu">hallucinogenic</a>, or <a href="/facts/Entheogenic/6boCAmyy">entheogenic</a> substances with his research on <a href="/facts/N,N-dimethyltryptamine/oIPCXryU">N,N-dimethyltryptamine</a>, also known as DMT. He is also the author of <a href="/facts/DMT:_The_Spirit_Molecule/ANfFguGG">DMT: The Spirit Molecule</a>, which summarizes his academic research into DMT and other experimental studies of it, and includes his own reflections and conclusions based on this research.

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Rick Strassman