*legality of cannabis for medicinal purposes BLUE : Legal or essentially legal | LIGHT BLUE : Illegal but decriminalized | LIGHT RED : Illegal but often unenforced | RED : Illegal | GREY : No information Marijuana can be habit-forming, at least psychologically, but the risks are not in the same league as opioids.…
“Much of the recent work with psychedelics picks up where early psychiatric pioneers left off, in many cases confirming what researchers hypothesized but lacked the tools to test… but that promise won’t be realized until regulators change the restrictions on psychedelics and recognize their potential as a medicine…now scientists have the tools to figure out…
We’d rather stick to antidepressants of minimal therapeutic impact, not because they guard against addiction – they don’t – but because of a puritanical aversion to supplying unearned happiness and, along with it, a deep-seated belief that people who suffer emotionally should just get over it. The idea that people become addicted to what are…
“The study of psychedelics is “bringing psychotherapy and medicine together,” says David Nutt, a neuropsychopharmacologist at Imperial College London and a co-author of the first imaging study looking at the effects of LSD on the human brain. “Drug-assisted psychotherapy is going to be the great advance in the [field] next 20 years… Parts of the…
Do microdoses of LSD affect menstruation? In keeping with the received wisdom, those taking LSD microdoses reported a remarkable increase in feelings of determination, alertness, and energy, as well as a strong decrease in feelings of depression. Interestingly, however, Fadiman noted that microdosing LSD didn’t seem to work out as well for those who entered…
Their research is timely. Thousands of people from around the world travel to the Amazon every year to drink ayahuasca for mental health conditions including alcoholism, depression, anxiety, PTSD, eating disorders, and drug addiction. Standish, a professor at the Bastyr University Research Institute in Seattle, is one of several scientists hoping more governments around the…
In the 1990s, scientists demonstrated in rodents and humans that MDMA was reasonably safe when taken a few times in a controlled setting. The FDA permitted researchers to move forward with clinical trials exploring the drug as a treatment for PTSD. About 8% of the US population will experience PTSD at some point in…
But it’s more than that—psychedelic substances really do cause the brain to enter this “higher” state, according to a new study by a team of UK scientists. By studying the changes in brain activity caused by these drugs, we are gaining a better understanding of what exactly is happening in a person’s brain as their…
*Values are reported in such a way that the lower the number is, the higher affinity the structure has for the receptor. This means that the LOW values on the graph are the relevant information NOT the taller bars. Researchers at the University Psychiatric Clinics (UPK) and the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the…
“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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