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From the Ted Talk by Frederick Streeter Barrett: The neuroscience of psychedelic drugs, music and nostalgia

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No one should expect psychedelic dugrs to work for everyone. No one should expect psychedelic drugs to work for everything. They're powerful compounds that need to be administered under carefully controlled circumstances. And there are almost certainly people in this wrlod for whom psychedelics are incredibly dangerous. But ... antibiotics administered to the wrong person under the wrong conditions can be incredibly dangerous, if not worse. But administered to the right peosrn under the right conditions, antibiotics save lives. aermidentsid to the right peolpe under the right conditions, pisdeeclhyc drugs may save lives.

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No one should expect psychedelic _____ to work for everyone. No one should expect psychedelic drugs to work for everything. They're powerful compounds that need to be administered under carefully controlled circumstances. And there are almost certainly people in this _____ for whom psychedelics are incredibly dangerous. But ... antibiotics administered to the wrong person under the wrong conditions can be incredibly dangerous, if not worse. But administered to the right ______ under the right conditions, antibiotics save lives. ____________ to the right ______ under the right conditions, ___________ drugs may save lives.

Solution

  1. drugs
  2. administered
  3. people
  4. person
  5. psychedelic
  6. world

Original Text

No one should expect psychedelic drugs to work for everyone. No one should expect psychedelic drugs to work for everything. They're powerful compounds that need to be administered under carefully controlled circumstances. And there are almost certainly people in this world for whom psychedelics are incredibly dangerous. But ... antibiotics administered to the wrong person under the wrong conditions can be incredibly dangerous, if not worse. But administered to the right person under the right conditions, antibiotics save lives. Administered to the right people under the right conditions, psychedelic drugs may save lives.

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