I know a fella who went from zombie on pharmaceuticals to going back to work and becoming active again by micro-dosing shrooms. If you look at the big picture, temporally, these ideas about regulating drugs and making treatments the province of a federal agency and a couple NGOs is really weird.

For instance, I have a problem which was treated with gabapentin. I didn't know until after I was taking it that people become addicted and it's not uncommon to develop suicidal tendencies. I weaned off ASAP and am suffering with the problem without it. If it gets worse, I'll be trying a different recommended treatment which happens to be pot.