Psychedelics

Will Psychedelic Drugs Transform Mental Health Treatment?

PODCAST – KEEP AN OPEN MIND – May 9, 2023 - The US could soon follow, with plans for the US Food and Drug Administration to be asked for approval to treat PTSD with MDMA this year. Ian Sample speaks to correspondent... Read More...

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Is Ibogaine a Safe & Effective Treatment For Addictions?

LET’S FIND OUT – March 7, 2023 - The difficulty in treating dependence lies mainly in the fact that addictive behaviors tend to modify the structure and functioning of the brain. Reversing these modifications i... Read More...

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Ibogaine Can Treat Addiction. The Race Is On To Cash In!

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY – Jan. 24, 2023 - It was horrific, it was the worst thing in the world, what I saw,” said Smith (whose name has been changed to protect her identity) referring to her experience on ibogaine. Be... Read More...

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Scientists Explore Psychedelics to Treat Addiction Disorders

MEDICINES ARE DRUGS – Jan. 2, 2023 - Early studies have shown promise with treating addiction to tobacco and alcohol. The question has gained urgency as the U.S. faces an overdose surge that is killing m... Read More...

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Therapists Are Signing Up For Psychedelic Therapies Training

TRIP NOT TRIPLE SEC – Dec. 26, 2022 - The CIIS has trained roughly 800 students in the psychedelic program since 2016, Phelps said. And with receptiveness toward psychedelics growing, more practitioners ... Read More...

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Music & Ayahuasca’s Role In Treating Substance Abuse In Men

WHATEVER WORKS – Dec. 22, 2022 - or the first time in the center’s 30-year history, a University of California, Riverside music researcher has captured the positive impact icaros play in men’s recovery. ... Read More...

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I Tried Ibogaine, the Psychedelic Anti-Addiction Drug

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY – NOV. 25, 2022 - Soon the trip starts: images of the solar system punctuated by clips of my younger self laughing, then a bizarre internal reel made up of Jesus Christ, an alien a... Read More...

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Mushroom Drug Treats Severe Depression

MAGICAL HEALINGS – Nov. 2, 2022 - Most had been severely depressed for more than a year and were aged around 40, the researchers, from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s C... Read More...

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Does Psychedelic Medicine Offer a Better Solution for Overcoming Alcoholism?

VIDEO – THE DOCTOR THINKS SO – Oct. 21, 2022 - Zuloff-Shani, PhD: I think that the list is almost endless because I think that there’s no question about it. We are in a current crisis, a mental health crisis. I... Read More...

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LSD-based drugs help mice with anxiety and depression — without the trip

STANLEY MOUSE? – Oct. 5, 2022 - The new drug comes from a large team of scientists who did not start out looking for an antidepressant. They had been building a virtual library of 75 million molecules... Read More...

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Ibogaine Addiction Treatment In Brazil

WORTH THE AIRFARE – Sept. 21, 2022 - In recent decades, after a strong renaissance of clinical research around ibogaine and other mind-expanding drugs, psychedelic-assisted therapies are becoming increas... Read More...

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LSD Therapy Induces Rapid, Lasting Reductions in Anxiety and Depression

BILL W. WAS A PIONEER – Sept. 8, 2022 - LSD-assisted therapy could provide benefits to patients struggling with anxiety disorders, according to new research published in Biological Psychiatry. The findin... Read More...

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San Francisco One Step Closer to Decriminalizing Plant-Based Psychedelics

SUMMER OF LOVE THERAPY CONTINUES – Sept. 10, 2022 - The measure, resolution #220896, concerns entheogenic plants, another term for psychoactive plants, or plants that can induce changes in perception and mood. ... Read More...

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Young Adults Using Weed and Hallucinogens At Highest Rates On Record

GENERATION RAM DASS – Aug. 24, 2022 - Alcohol was the most popular substance in the study, though rates of daily drinking have decreased in the past 10 years. But binge drinking — which the orga... Read More...

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Psychedelic Drug Could Help Treat Addictions

VIDEO – ITS A TRIP, NOT A SLIP – Aug. 24, 2022 - Two doses of psilocybin pills, along with psychotherapy, helped people with alcohol use disorder reduce drinking for at least eight months after their fir... Read More...

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Startup Wants to Use Magic Mushrooms to End Alcoholism

THE OMELETTE AT EVERY REHAB – Aug. 6, 2022 - Alcohol use disorder—more colloquially known as alcoholism—tends to happen slowly, and then all at once. Most people will say a few drinks in social settings ... Read More...

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Psychedelics Will Play a Big Role in American Life

NOT IN AA? – July 18, 2020 - Laughing is only part of Mr. Pollan’s three-and-a-half hours of morning routines: He starts the day by reading the newspapers in bed for 45 minutes before getting dressed, then fix... Read More...

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Doctors Urge Access To Psychedelics

THE FUTURE’S SO BRIGHT, YOU HAVE TO WEAR SHADES – July 12, 2022 - A legislative panel on Tuesday listened to advocates who hope to broaden the scope of medical treatment and research assisted by psilocybin, th... Read More...

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Investors See Far Out Profits in Psychedelic Medicine

AUDIO – WALLS Melt on Wall Street – July 13, 2022 - Empath has since raised $2.1 million of a $10 million target for its first fund and made 10 investments. Portfolio companies include Mindstate Design Labs, w... Read More...

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Book Review: The Limits of Drug-Based Psychiatry

LIMITLESS – July 8, 2022 - Take the chemical imbalance theory — as deeply embedded in the contemporary cultural firmament as Freud’s tripartite theory of the mind was a couple of generations ago — which posits ... Read More...

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Meet the Next-Gen Treating Alcoholism With Psychedelics

VIDEO – STOCKS AND PATIENTS GETTING HIGHER – July 1, 2022 - In today’s episode of PsycBiz, James —the Psychedelic Investor— sits down with Mark Haden, VP of Business Development for Clearmind Medicine (CSE: CM... Read More...

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Psychiatric Drugs Do Not Improve Disease

THEY DO MAKE MONEY – June 20, 2022 - His examples are psychiatry’s two mainstays of treatment, antidepressants and antipsychotics. For instance, he notes that antidepressant treatment increases suicide attempt... Read More...

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Ibogaine Isn’t a “Cure” for Addiction—But It Can Be a Useful Detox Tool

HEALING INFORMATION? – June 16, 2022 - On June 13, the city council of Amherst, Massachusetts, declined to advance a measure decriminalizing entheogens, or naturally occurring psychedelics. These include psilo... Read More...

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Positive Results for Addiction Relapse Prevention

SCIENCE MAY ONE DAY DO SO – June 2, 2022 - Gene Analysis was performed by the Clariom S Assay tool. This machine serves as a next generation transcriptome-wide gene-level expression profiling tool, which allow... Read More...

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Can Psychedelics Rewire a Depressed or Anxious Brain?

AUDIO – FINDING A NEW WAY TO HEAL – May 27, 2022 - In the latest episode of our In Conversation podcast, we discuss the newest research into the neuroscience of anxiety and depression and how this may change th... Read More...

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Can Psychedelic Startups Solve Mental Health Crisis?

VIDEO – THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS – May 11, 2022 - But recent studies showing great promise in psychedelics are prompting startups to develop new health drugs in the space. Venture capitalists are also taki... Read More...

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LSD May Be Effective As Anxiety Treatment

MAKES ME NERVOUS – March 30, 2022 - A new study found that psychedelic drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) may be effective at reducing symptoms of stress-related anxiety and in mental health treatme... Read More...

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Next Big Addiction Treatment

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN – March 31, 2022 - “The old rule of thumb is that one-third of people get better, one-third stay the same, and one-third continue to get worse,” said Dr. Michael Bogenschutz, a psyc... Read More...

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Sub-Hallucinogenic DMT Patch in Development

VIDEO – HALLUCINOGENICS GO MAINSTREAM – March 22, 2022 - Jacqueline L. von Salm’s team is working on a patch that would provide a micro-dose of the hallucinogenic drug DMT at levels low enough to avoid ha... Read More...

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Psychedelic Toad Venom Is In Demand

BEWARE THE FROG YOU KISS – March 20, 2022 - Riding the wave of greater mainstream acceptance of psychedelics for treating mental disorders and addiction, a fast-growing retreat industry is touting the potential... Read More...

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