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{{Schizophrenia]] Megavitamin therapy advocates Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond claimed that adrenochrome is a hallucinogenic substance and may be responsible for schizophrenia^[1] and other mental illnesses. In what they called the "adrenochrome hypothesis", they speculated that megadoses of vitamin C and niacin could cure schizophrenia by reducing brain adrenochrome.^[2] There has been controversy about whether adrenochrome can be classified as a psychotropic drug.^[3]

See also

• Biological psychiatry
• Orthomolecular psychiatry
• Schizophrenia - Neurochemistry

References

1. ↑ Hoffer, A The Adrenochrome Hypothesis and Psychiatry. URL accessed on 2011-07-25.
2. ↑ Hoffer, A. and Osmond, H. The Hallucinogens (Academic Press, 1967).
3. ↑ Erowid Adrenochrome Vault