The heavy doses of trazodone and Klonopin caused a severe loss of inhibition and I felt a dangerous sense of apathy toward my well-being… The only identity I was presented with by each clinician was that of a sick individual. I started drinking heavily to try and regain any sort of emotion. I was neither…
Young drug reformers also had a few bones to pick with the administration’s priorities… applauded priorities like more access to treatment and more research on racial equity… complained that the administration priorities “fail to provide adequate support to Young People Who Use Drugs (YPWUD) in this country” – especially those who use drugs non-problematically. “[T]here…
…a 2021 study (published in the International Journal of Drug Policy) has found that using narrative work and storytelling… “These stories make it easier, or at least more likely, to continue the use of psychedelics. When even bad experiences become good, an important threshold against psychedelic drug use disappears.” …put simply, talking about the experience…
…successfully obtained government approvals for a doctor to prescribe… to patients to take… unsupervised in the community… …data collected from 80 participants from over the course of 12 months and 1,102 microdoses. The daily questionnaire showed credible evidence of increased ratings from participants in energy, wellness, creativity, happiness and connectedness on the dose days… the…
The committee of lawyers for the local governments suing the drug industry in federal courts called Tuesday’s verdict [11/23/21] “a milestone victory” and “overdue reckoning.” Not only were the drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.)… but the D.E.A. also set the annual limit on how many opioids could be produced in the…
“It’s time for psychedelic medicine to climb down from the ivory tower and into the community,” said Dr Belser. A recent survey… of adults in Oregon – the first state in the United States to legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms – found that on average, people would be willing to pay $100 for a psilocybin therapy…
Despite the seriousness of those findings, acetaminophen nonetheless remains one of the most used medications in the world, considered an essential medicine by the World Health Organization, and recommended by the CDC for pain relief at home… the findings are reported in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. “Acetaminophen seems to make people feel less negative emotion when they…
…study published in The Journal of Psychedelic Psychiatry has attempted to measure the change in public sentiment regarding psychedelics and the frequency of their mentions over time in American newspapers… …the decriminalization movement across the United States, particularly Oregon decriminalizing drug possession and legalizing supervised psilocybin sessions, has allowed people to speak more openly about psychedelics… narrative and…
D.C. voters legalized the possession, home cultivation and gifting of adult-use cannabis in 2014, a congressional rider has blocked the District from using its tax dollars to implement a regulated system of sales. They heard numerous recommendations on the legalization proposal, ranging from enhancing social equity provisions to ensuring that medical cannabis patients continue to…
In order to have physical dependence your body needs to start relying on a substance to function properly. …there does not appear to be any sort of physiological mechanism that would make your body “dependent” on psilocin in such a way that you’d experience physical effects from stopping a regimen. In other words, no, you’re…
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