Filament Health Corp. announced the approval of a clinical trial in partnership with Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen. The trial, led by PhD student Mathias Ebbesen Jensen and Professor Anders Fink-Jensen, will study Filament's natural psilocybin drug candidate for the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and was recently approved by the Danish Medicines Agency.

Five percent of all deaths worldwide each year result from the harmful use of alcohol. With this trial, Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen will determine the effects of a single administration of 25 milligrams of psilocybin on alcohol use and study the extent to which the brain is affected by psilocybin. Filament Health produces natural psilocybin, extracted from magic mushrooms. The GMP-released drug candidate has been exported from Filament's Metro Vancouver lab and has arrived at the clinical site in Copenhagen in preparation for the trial's start.

This is the third European clinical trial which has been approved to use Filament's natural psilocybin. The trial in Copenhagen will begin next month.