“If the university is serious about avoiding further tragedies they should invest in proven nightlife drug harm reduction measures. We should follow the evidence of what will keep people safe, not futile enforcement grandstanding.” -Steve Rolles, Senior Policy Analyst for the Transform Drug Policy Foundation. There’s not a wealth of research on the effectiveness of…
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…
In an effort to consider promising strategies that could reduce the health and societal problems associated with injection drug use, the AMA today voted to support the development of pilot facilities where people who use intravenous drugs can inject self-provided drugs under medical supervision. Studies from other countries have shown that supervised injection facilities reduce…
Of the 145 countries surveyed in another report — the 2014 Gallup-Healthways Global Wellbeing Index — the social well-being of citizens in Singapore ranked 123, Japan 127, China 129 and South Korea 112. Indeed, mental healthcare in Asia stands to benefit substantially from new developments. Suicide rates in South Korea are the second highest in…
*age of consent in the United States – green=18 grey=17 blue=16 “People are using psychedelics not to drop out of, but to engage with mainstream society.” -Jag Davies (Drug Policy Alliance) A growing number of people are taking psychedelics for healing. Advocates say drugs like LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, DMT, ayahuasca and ketamine provide a kaleidoscopic array of potential applications,…
The road back is not an easy one, but it is clear enough. It begins by admitting that not every good idea is constitutional, nor is every bad idea unconstitutional. And while many people might well think that prohibiting drugs is a good idea, it is decidedly unconstitutional. There is no authority granted to the…
“This is not about providing free drugs,” said MacDonald. “It’s about providing better care and reducing the burden on society.” It costs the provincial government about C$27,000 a year to fund a Crosstown client, as opposed to an estimated C$48,000 spent a year on health, policing and judicial costs for those who are dependent on…
Q: How do you see the chances of drug policy reform in the global scale? Should we expect slow gradual changes or are we heading to revolutionary paradigm shift? A: Change is happening, there is no question. The speed is glacial at times: the UN sands shift slowly, and progress is continuously stifled by the…
Today, the medicalisation of hallucinogens is once again on the rise. While this is an important and vital step in creating both an atmosphere of acceptance in the public mind and their utilisation in the psychiatric sphere, it should not be seen as an end in itself. The central lesson of psychedelic literature is that,…
Lisa Monteggia, professor of neuroscience at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, has studied how ketamine works to fight depression. Based on her own research, she thinks the trippy effects can be dissociated from the therapeutic ones. The right dose of the right compound, correctly timed, could “enable the design of treatment…
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