Trends in the psychedelic renaissance: applying artificial intelligence to measure media portrayal of psychedelic drugs in the 21st century
Although most 21st-century media coverage of psychedelic drugs has been positively framed, negative and neutral coverage has increased in frequency since 2020. Researchers, clinicians, regulators and policy-makers should be mindful of the complex relationship between media portrayals of psychedelics and the results of scientific research.
Authors
- Madeline Villalba
- M.K. Iyer
- Reetwan Bandyopadhyay
- Barış Erçal
- Zaryab Alam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0385-9856)
- Akila Anandarajah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0430-9561)
- Brendan Ross (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6801-989X)
- David J. Hellerstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8031-4354)
- Charles B. Nemeroff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7867-1160)
- Brandon J. Kiley
- Syed Ali Ahmed
- David A. Bender (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-2110)
- Holly Dunn
- Hannah Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0600-2555)
- Jacob T. Steinle
- Suraj Shankar
- Kayla Smart
- Arushi D. Mohite
- Rana Abdalla
- Juy Yusuf
- Melinda Daniels-Tineo
- Umer Jalil
- Madison K. Stille
- Mia Stonov
- Anvi Divekar
- Amanda Pekau
- Gibson Werner
- Sonali Sharma
- Nithya Pippala
- Rishi Gonuguntla
- Sophia Chertock
- Sara Martin
- Jatin Sridhar
- Adebusola Adeyemi
Institutions
- Texas A&M Health Science Center (US)
- BJC HealthCare (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (US)
- Columbia College (CA)
- Royal College of Physicians (GB)
- New York State Psychiatric Institute
- University of the Incarnate Word (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (US)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BJPsych Open
- Published
- 2026-02-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2025.10974
- Primary Topic
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Johns Hopkins University
- ACADIA Pharmaceuticals
- Neurocrine Biosciences
- Sage Therapeutics
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases