Oregon could become home to the legal… use of magic mushrooms. A campaign to legalize psilocybin, informally known as magic mushrooms, is making its way to voters. “Psilocybin, after all, is an off-patent, organic agent which creates change through the psychedelic experience it provides, such that a single experience often changes a person’s disposition moving…
Residents and shopkeepers in North Richmond have been calling all year for such a facility, which has the support of paramedics, nurses and firefighters’ unions, and the police union recently announced they no longer oppose it. Vote 1 Local Jobs MP James Purcell expressed strong support on Monday for an injecting room trial. “The research…
In many countries, including Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark, opioid treatment may include daily injections of heroin, just as a diabetic may receive daily insulin injections, along with treating the patient’s medical and psychosocial issues. These patients hold jobs, pay taxes and live long, healthy, productive lives. Yet in the U.S., such programs are…
Under the Medical Marijuana Improvement Amendment Act of 2017, patients would be allowed to self-certify as qualifying for medical cannabis …The bill would also allow medical cannabis dispensaries to open areas where patients could consume marijuana together socially … Separately, he wrote to District health officials asking that they examine allowing safe injection facilities where…
“Medical education needs to catch up to marijuana legislation,” said senior author Dr. Laura Jean Bierut, a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Curriculum deans at 101 medical schools completed surveys about marijuana education. Just over two-thirds said their graduates weren’t prepared to prescribe medical marijuana. One-quarter said…
At present, it’s difficult to treat PTSD with psychotherapy alone because often the underlying trauma is too difficult for people to relive with a therapist. But previous work suggests that MDMA helps get PTSD patients to a psychological state where they are comfortable working through those memories. In MAPS-sponsored phase II trial including 107 PTSD…
This study is particularly interesting in that it investigates the role of the human brain’s default-mode network in mental time travel. As it turns out, those of us with an active DMN are more likely to reflect on the past and hence wax romantic about what is not present, a reliable marker of depressed states.…
What explains the mysterious gap between the 10 percent of drug users who sink into addiction and the 90 percent who don’t? It’s the experience of unresolved childhood trauma. And why does childhood trauma make you so much more likely to become an addicted adult? While the lock-’em-up mindset may be viscerally satisfying to some…
The pressure to share information can be almost constant, but psychotherapists who facilitate psychedelic research do not share information about the subjects in their care with the public unless those individuals decide independently that they want to tell their stories. Research participants are often vulnerable, but also autonomous, and can give consent for interviews with…
“The major benefit seems to be that there’s an improved equilibrium of systems throughout the body, which is why it seems to affect so many different systems,” he said… but for addicts, vets, and people suffering from disorders who could find help in these drugs, the stakes are as high as their very survival. LSD…
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