Editing Rick Strassman (section)

{{Short description|American drug researcher}}
{{Infobox scientist
| honorific_prefix  = 
| name              = Rick Strassman
| image             = Rick Strassman (academic).png
| birth_date        = {{birth date |1952|02|08}}
| birth_place       = [[Los Angeles, California]]
| nationality       = [[United States|American]]
| fields            = {{ubl|[[Psychiatry]]|[[Psychedelics]]}}
| education         = {{ubl|[[Pomona College]]|[[Stanford University]]}}
| alma_mater        = [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]]
| known_for         = ''DMT: The Spirit Molecule''
}}
'''Rick Strassman''' is an American clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the [[University of New Mexico School of Medicine]]. He has held a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology research at the University of California San Diego and was Professor of Psychiatry for eleven years at the University of New Mexico.<ref name="Dr. Rick Strassman">[https://www.wasiwaska.org/rick-strassman-2/ Dr. Rick Strassman] Wasiwaska</ref> After 20 years of intermission, Strassman was the first person in the [[United States of America|United States]] to undertake human research with [[Psychedelic drug|psychedelic]], [[Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants|hallucinogenic]], or [[entheogenic]] substances with his research on [[N,N-dimethyltryptamine|''N,N''-dimethyltryptamine]], also known as DMT. He is also the author of ''[[DMT: The Spirit Molecule]]'', which summarizes his academic research into DMT and other experimental studies of it, and includes his own reflections and conclusions based on this research.