The ‘goal’ of pharmaceutical anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications is to inhibit brain activity that leads to negativity and fear. Unfortunately, these medications really only serve as a band-aid and sadly, can even amplify the problem if someone is to become dependent and then abstain. Researchers at the Psychiatric University Hospital of Zurich have looked into…
“Using drugs can be a rational choice, a bad choice, or in cases of addiction, a very constrained choice. It is never a crime. Therefore, no criminal sanctions for drug possession and use.” -David Nutt of Drug Science But it can’t just be a free-for-all. Just because you’re not throwing drug users in prison doesn’t…
“This study can conclude that medical cannabis patients report successfully using cannabis along with or as a substitute for opioid-based pain medication,” the team reported in the journal Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research. Out of the 2,810 participants who were currently using cannabis, 828 had used opioids in the last six months to manage their pain.…
…it may be time to time to reconsider our current classification of controlled substances. Clearly we must continue to be vigilant about whether drugs pose physical harm to patients. But we could assess drugs using additional measurements, including the potential for dependence; social costs through damaged family and social life; and financial costs through health…
“It’s just so scary… Jeff Sessions and the drug war, and that we would go backwards after all this work and money,” says Ann Mithoefer, co-therapist on the ongoing MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and PTSD studies funded by MAPS, alongside her husband Michael. Though the FDA is more friendly to psychedelics than ever before, getting the approval…
West Yorkshire Police assistant chief constable Andy Battle, who leads the policing operation at Leeds, said they were “looking at the possibility of supporting the festival’s organisers”. “We can never condone the use of illegal drugs, but we recognise that some people will continue to take them and we need to adapt our approach in…
…the British Medical Journal has come out in favour of legalisation, noting that the ban on many recreational drugs is causing huge harm to users Over the past two decades, the trend in most Western countries has been towards legalising or decriminalising drugs such as cannabis in line with scientific evidence about their relative harm.…
Consciousness can be studied using magnetoencephalogram (MEG) and electroencephalogram (EEG) techniques to measure neural signal diversity…. The authors found that among the psychedelic drugs tested, there was an increase in signal diversity in the psychedelic state compared to placebo. These results were supported by the questionnaire results. The authors expected that three different psychedelic drugs…
We recognise that entering structured treatment is not always possible, or even desired by some individuals, and these people would be most likely to benefit from Safer Consumption Rooms. While we are not currently looking to establish any facilities of this nature, we would certainly be open to working with any of our commissioners who…
To make psilocybin an FDA approved medication, there are still many hurdles to jump through. Phase 3 clinical trials need to be done to continue to show it’s safety and efficacy, and these studies are long and expensive to perform. A recent clinical review of psilocybin, the active compound in “magic mushrooms”, shows that it…
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