After he took 5-MeO-DMT, Smith felt he was back in touch with the real God, and was intimately one with Him. It seemed the demons were being exorcised, and he no longer felt beholden to the OCD god.

Up until that moment, they’d somehow kept Smith on the field for 12 starts and 731 snaps, playing excellent football even though he was in a desperate fight for his mind. Smith was there for his ...

Smith remembers more of the 5-MeO-DMT experience. A beautiful place ... I shot up, and it seemed like I was being exorcised of demons out of me, or bad energy, or whatever it was.

This story was first published in Reporting Texas, a student newsroom of the University of Texas at Austin. On April 7, ...