Psychology

The high road to beating addiction

I was intrigued to learn some so-called psychedelic, hallucinogenic or psychoactive drugs might actually cure some addictions. The mantra of most drug addiction programs and mainstream, alternative or luxury rehab centers has long been that you can’t cure addiction. Once an addict, always an addict. Even if you don’t use drugs or drink for 20…

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Psychology

People who have taken psychedelics are more likely to be environmentally friendly

*Cascadia wildfires of Summer 2017 ​ Psychologists from Yale University and the University of Innsbruck in Austria asked 1,487 people about their experience with psychedelics and other hallucinogens. However, the relationship between taking psychedelics and being green is only a correlation and the eco-friendly behaviors in the study were all self-reported. This begs the question:…

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Psychology

Music helps hallucinogens heal minds, scientist finds

According to Kaelen’s findings, published in the journals Neuropsychopharmacology and Psychopharmacology, brain scans of 22 subjects showed that LSD reduced connectivity between the visual cortex and parahippocampus — between what someone sees, and that person’s memories and imagination. But add music to the mix, he said, and the connectivity between the two brain regions goes…

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