Missouri officials are preparing to award $5 million in grant funding to explore whether psilocybin could be an effective treatment for opioid use disorders and help reduce overdose deaths.

Dried psilocybin mushrooms.
The state’s Department of Mental Health released a memo on Monday seeking expert assistance from contractors to help shape the competitive grant process for this research.
The memo explains, “This request for information (RFI) allows vendors to provide us with ideas, suggestions, and relevant information specifically related to opioid research and its potential to treat opioid addiction.”
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