Psychology

The middle-class women who are…

…one study published in July 2024 found that the percentage of adults aged 35 to 50 who had used hallucinogens within the past year was seven times what it was in 2014. I spoke to a dozen women who use psychedelics regularly, and found them to be a diverse bunch: They come from different generations and…

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Psychology

Over 5 million Americans could benefit if psilocybin approved for depression

In the mid-range of estimates, anywhere from 56% to 62% of Americans currently being treated for depression could be eligible to try psilocybin. The number could even grow higher if people currently untreated for their depression decide they would like to try psilocybin, the investigators noted. Original Article (Newsweek):Over 5 million Americans could benefit if psilocybin…

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Psychology

Psilocybin… the human brain

Psilocybin was supplied by Usona Institute… (Open Science and Praxis Signatories) here we tracked individual-specific brain changes with longitudinal precision functional mapping (roughly 18 magnetic resonance imaging visits per participant). Healthy adults were tracked before, during and for 3 weeks after high-dose psilocybin (25 mg) and methylphenidate (40 mg), and brought back for an additional psilocybin dose 6–12 months…

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Psychology

What psychedelia can learn from Clusterbusters

…if someone is desperate and suicidal, of course they should be able to try psychedelics, as quickly and safely as possible. The healthcare system is broken, the FDA approval system is slow and very expensive…and people can sometimes heal themselves outside of the medical system.  Clusterbusters is a really interesting example of a peer support group which…

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Science

How cannabis and psilocybin might help some of the 50 million Americans who are experiencing chronic pain

I want to help understand how to effectively use cannabis and psilocybin as potential tools for pain management. …lethal overdoses from cannabis are almost unheard of. This is remarkable considering that nearly 50 million Americans use it each year… a group of cannabis and pain specialists published a proposed guideline for clinical practice in early 2024 to…

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Psychology

…psilocybin shop reopens after two police raids in one week

…it appears as though the owners of psilocybin shops have no plans to shut down for good. “This is like some kind of terrible drug war anachronism from some other era that shouldn’t even be on the books and we’re hopefully going to change that,” FunGuyz lawyer Paul Lewin. According to the former Ontario Provincial…

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Psychology

Use of psilocybin for mental health treatment ‘not associated’ with risk of paranoia, American Medical Association study finds

While psychedelics are sometimes portrayed in media as causing intense paranoia, particularly in a recreational setting, the study authors said psilocybin “was not associated with risk of paranoia and transient thought disorder.” The researchers identified five other reported adverse effects among certain patients in the clinical trials: headache, nausea, anxiety, dizziness and elevated blood pressure.…

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Psychology

FDA breakthrough therapy status to LSD analog…

…an LSD analog, L S D (Lysergide D-Tartrate) was given “breakthrough therapy” designation by the FDA for treating anxiety. …this analog… a tartrate salt form… called MM-120. A single oral administration (100 µg) of this psychelic analog, MM120, maintained a clinically and statistically significant reduction in symptoms compared to placebo at 12 weeks — with…

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Psychology

The converging interest between…

The current context into which psychedelics emerge finds its backdrop in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a defining era in American history. This period was marked by President Nixon’s War on Drugs and a significant economic shift as the U.S. officially departed from the gold standard in 1971. …links these two historical decisions, “Classifying…

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Psychology

Psilocybin’s role in trauma recovery may be mental and physical…

“Our study explored whether those who engaged in recreational psilocybin use also had lesser psychological distress,” he said. “It also explored whether the effect of psilocybin in reducing distress appeared to differ according to the level of childhood adversity.” In short, the answer is yes to both outcomes. To measure distress, researchers asked participants to…

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