Race and ethnicity moderate the associations between lifetime psilocybin use and crime arrests

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Grant Jones¹  Taylor C. McGuire¹  Franchesca Castro-Ramirez¹  Patrick Mair¹  Matthew K. Nock¹  Maha Al-Suwaidi² 

[1] Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States;Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States;

关键词: race;    crime;    psilocybin;    psychedelics;    NSDUH;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1169692

 received in 2023-02-21, accepted in 2023-08-07,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionPsilocybin use has been linked to lowered odds of crime-related outcomes across a host of observational studies. No studies have investigated how these associations may differ among those of different races and ethnicities.MethodsUsing a nationally-representative sample of 734,061 adults from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (2002–2020), we investigated whether race and ethnicity moderate the associations between lifetime psilocybin use and four measures of crime arrests (property crime, assault, serious violence, and miscellaneous crimes).ResultsFirst, we replicated prior findings and demonstrated that psilocybin confers lowered odds of crime arrests for all four outcomes in question. Second, we demonstrated that race and ethnicity moderate the associations between lifetime psilocybin use and crime arrests for three of our four outcomes. Third, we examined the associations between psilocybin and crime arrests across different races and ethnicities (White, Black, Indigenous, Asian, Multiracial, and Hispanic participants). Psilocybin conferred lowered odds of at least one crime arrest outcome for all racial and ethnic groups except for Black and Hispanic participants.DiscussionFuture investigations should take an intersectional approach to studying the interrelationship of sociodemographic factors, psychedelic use, and crime, examine the structural factors (i.e., systemic racism) that may underlie these results, and investigate whether psychedelics can alleviate mental health disorders that contribute to cycles of recriminalization for communities of color.

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