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A once-controversial psychedelic substance could potentially be a promising treatment for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). That’s the view of Dr. Rakesh Jain, a psychiatrist with extensive experience in clinical practice, research, and education, affiliated with Texas Tech University School of Medicine. Jain expressed optimism in LSD-based therapy while acknowledging the challenges inherent in such a radical shift, in a recent MindMed analyst briefing on the heels of its MM-120 winning a breakthrough designation for an LSD-based treatment for GAD, based on promising topline data from a phase 2b study.A once-controversial psychedelic substance could hold the key to treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). This is the view of Dr. Rakesh Jain, a prominent psychiatrist who serves as a clinical professor at the Department of Psychiatry at Texas Tech University School of Medicine. While ack…