Biography/Memoir

Springfield [Oregon] K9 finds $50K worth of fentanyl in children’s toy

As little as 10 milligrams is considered a lethal dose… Officers… seized a pound of powdered fentanyl before it could reach the streets, after finding it concealed in a children’s toy… [Image… molecular recognition of morphine and fentanyl by the human μ-opioid receptor.] Original Article (Koin):Springfield [Oregon] K9 finds $50K worth of fentanyl in children’s…

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Science

Psilocybin helped doctors and nurses who worked through the pandemic

Researchers ran a double-blind, randomized trial in Washington State from February-December 2022. Their study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on December 5, 2024. This randomized clinical trial found that psilocybin therapy resulted in a significant, sustained reduction in symptoms of depression experienced by clinicians after frontline work during the…

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Politics

Psilocybin in Oregon may help address fears of death, but… access…

John was among tens of thousands of Oregonians whose conditions may prevent them from traveling to service centers… few downsides to creating more avenues for people to access psilocybin, like allowing for use at home or in hospice centers. …a federal lawsuit against the Oregon Health Authority, alleging the agency’s psilocybin services program violates the…

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Science

The first functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of psychedelics [was] published in 2012… 

[In December 2024]; a [new] synergistic, multi-level understanding of psychedelics; a novel, synergistic understanding of psychedelics arising from systematic reviews and meta-analyses of three hierarchical levels of analysis: (1) subjective experience (phenomenology), (2) neuroimaging and (3) molecular pharmacology. The Altered States of Consciousness (ASC) scale is one popular questionnaire that captures several of these subjective…

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Medicine/Healing

VA funds first study on psychedelic-assisted therapy for Veterans

…the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it will fund a study on Methylenedioxymethamphetamine-assisted, or MDMA-assisted, therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol use disorder among Veterans. This is the first VA-funded study for psychedelic-assisted therapy since the 1960s. The study is scheduled to take place at the Providence VA Medical Center in Rhode…

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