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Eliza Dushku’s Bold New Journey

A no-BS guide to the psychedelics ballot question in November.

The former movie and television actor had tried to numb the memory of being sexually assaulted at the age of 12, hiding it by play-acting the tough chick in leather pants on the silver screen, and suppressing it with all kinds of conscious and unconscious armor—including alcohol—in a bid to protect that scared little girl still suffering inside her. Also seated was Jerry Rosenbaum, the psychiatrist in chief emeritus at Mass General, where they are studying the effects of psilocybin on rumination (the stuck thinking that seems to be central to a host of psychiatric diagnoses, from anorexia to addiction to anxiety to OCD), as well as looking at psilocybin-assisted therapy as a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome. “When people with a high profile choose to go public and sponsor a mission or really advocate for a passion, they can be a powerful voice,” says James Tulsky, chair of the department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which is overseeing the first-ever study of psilocybin on hospice patients.

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