The med industry has been out of control since it started.
They fucking destroyed Hoffer for bringing adrenochrome to light. They attacked him publicly, while privately using adrenochrome as an assay for AT LEAST 30 (paper cites '71 study and was written in '01)years as an assay (tool used because it has known-properties that can be reliably used for research-in this case the reaction of adrenaline to adrenochrome in the presence of oxidative stress)
Backstory: In 1954, Hoffer followed up on a paper written a year earlier, confirming the adrenochrome theory of psychosis-adrenochrome, similar in structure and function to LSD, is oxidized when the person is highly stressed, to adrenochrome, producing psychosis in "schizophrenics" There's a dark story to this "coincidental discovery" but the take home here is he was ridiculed but it's the prominent theory today among anyone willing to look at the science.
https://cyber.sci-hub.tw/MTAuMTEyNC9qcGV0LjMwMC4yLjQxNw==/10.1124%40jpet.300.2.417.pdf