…published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, a team of Swiss researchers administered 20 participants, who were diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, and a further 22 participants with a mental disorder, significant amounts of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)… Participants of the study received either LSD or a placebo over three visits covering a 24-week period. The ones who…
The study, which appears in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, provides evidence that this is the case for both clinical and non-clinical populations… the participants answered questions regarding their integration practices in the wake of their psychedelic experiences. In other words, they reported the extent to which they intentionally revisited aspects their psychedelic experiences, incorporated…
Dave: And you’re saying that there’s going to be more access to services like this, which actually does seem to be helpful in terms of meth addiction more from Measure 110 directly as a result? Tera: Contingency management, at the core, basically encourages and incentivizes folks to stay off of meth by offering sometimes financial…
Medicalization is often presented as the societal and individual burden of unnecessary medical expansion… Medicalization can also lead to problems where, when a new condition is identified as having a medicalized treatment for it, suddenly everyone seems to have it. And sensing an opportunity, Big Pharma begins promoting it. So is the medical community in favor…
…”a single capsule of psilocybin in Oregon is going to cost $750,” was heard by Jon Dennis, Esq. Rather than a simple serotonin deficiency, depression can also be seen as a disorder of rigidity… this sometimes begins with chronic stress… restoring neuroplasticity could reopen the highway to health… as with many theories, this one is…
Despite a number of clinical trials showing that psilocybin can rapidly treat depression, including for cancer-related anxiety and depression, little is known about how psilocybin actually works to relieve depression in the brain. Now two recent studies, published in The New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Medicine, have shed some light on this mysterious…
Americans can’t be allowed to forget that the War on Drugs is and always has been… political manipulation – not a way to help people with addiction or to protect lives. The rise of the Internet… allowed perspectives that the mainstream media had ignored to reach larger audiences… early users of the Internet – mainly…
…monopolization is aided by society’s general belief that individuals who do not choose the medically sanctioned way to get better are doing something deviant… today’s psychedelic reboot, however, leaves behind the countercultural stuff of lore in favor of professionalism, doctors’ visits, and aggressively marketed treatments for diseases of the brain… psychiatry is socially vested with…
The effects of any flip depend on several factors: …the order in which you take the mushrooms and MDMA; how long you wait in between; the dose of each; the purity of the MDMA; your inner emotional state; your surrounding environment; and… your biology and psychology. Original Article (Psychedelic Spotlight):Combining psychedelics: is it safe?Artwork Fair…
In fact, 36% said they would be interested in gummies or candy with a tiny amount of a psychedelic drug as an ingredient, nearly the same number who say they’re interested in CBD gummies… Pereira noted that she would love to see a fungi face cream infused with psilocybin that is easily absorbed and could…
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