“Now, those cabinets also include naloxone [an opiate overdose medication], an antidote for people who are overdosing on opioids like heroin. Given as an injection or a nasal spray, naloxone can quickly revive someone who is not breathing. The city keeps it in every nurse’s office, including in its elementary schools.” But the numbers of…
Researchers have found that there is a correlation between psychedelic microdosing and a decrease in symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, Bipolar disorder and even addiction. The analogous nature of the active chemicals in drugs like LSD to serotonin, a chemical in the brain associated with happiness, is a big contributor to this, as it can…
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, who led the reform, said that “the government’s approval is an important step on the way to implement the new policy, which will emphasize public information and treatment instead of criminal enforcement.” MK Tamar Zandberg (Meretz), the chairwoman of the Knesset Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, said that…
“The legal victory in a small Spanish city is a great step for the legitimacy of the use of coca leaf, an ancestral practice that today has been recognized by a Spanish court.” The unprecedented resolution of a court case for coca leaf imports took place yesterday at the Provincial Court of Girona. F.T., a…
“I don’t need clinical studies to convince me ayahuasca is good medicine, that it’s helping people, but you can publish them [and it’s] a good way to convince skeptical colleagues in biomedicine” Is it ethical to try and take a medicine like this and stuff it into a biomedical research structure? Is that the right…
“Continued, much less intensified, enforcement of marijuana prohibition would be a tragedy. The drug war has created more than enough societal disasters, both domestically and internationally, since Nixon launched that initiative. Millions of Americans have had their lives disrupted and acquired the stigma of a criminal record for doing nothing more than choosing to use…
…[in Brazil] the potion itself was legalised in the 1992, after studies found it had positive effects on religious communities who drink the “tea” as their sacrament. Ayahuasca is also considered a medicine – even “the great medicine” of the Amazon basin. It has intense purgative effects and may work against parasites, as well as…
“This law guarantees coca for life, this is our struggle.” The new law expands the country’s authorized coca plantation zones to 22,000 hectares (55,000 acres) from the previous 12,000 hectares. The coca plant has many traditional uses in the Andes, including as a remedy for altitude sickness. When chewed, its leaves also provide mild stimulation…
*worldwide PTSD rates per 100,000 (2002) [Age-standardised disability-adjusted life year ] “I studied social work for my master’s degree and worked in a lot of highly traumatised communities as a therapist; I worked in a middle-school in the South Bronx with children with really high rates of trauma, with women arrested for sex work, and…
“This is an important step forward for Britain in a field of research that has, for too long, been held back by prejudice, fear and ignorance.” -Sir Patrick Stewart Prof Ahmed Ahmed of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology said existing studies were beginning to produce exciting findings which could result in new treatments.…
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