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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressioninterventionMental HealthOct 11 2022PsychedelicsRecovery
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressioninterventionMental HealthPsychedelicsRecoverySept 27 2022
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...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehabSept 13 2022Trauma
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionPsychedelicsRecoverySept 13 2022
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...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionmarijuanapotPsychedelicssmokingweed
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...Addiction RecoveryAug 30 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionPsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
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...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousAug 9 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 26 2022Mental HealthPsychedelicsRecovery
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...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 19 2022Mental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 19 2022Mental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 12 2022PsychedelicsRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehab
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...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 12 2022PsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediainterventionJune 28 2022Mental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehabTrauma
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 28 2022PsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictionJune 7 2022PsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictionMay 31 2022PsychedelicsRecovery
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...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMay 17 2022Mental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryApril 5 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
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...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousApril 5 2022Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionPsychedelicsRecovery
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 29 2022PsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMarch 22 2022Mental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
“I am certain that the LSD experience has helped me very much” AS WE TRIP THE ROAD OF HAPPY DESTINY – Feb. 9, 2022 - All this because, after that August day, Wilson believed other recovering alcoholics could benefit from taking LSD as a way to facilitate the “spiritual ex... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaInterviewMarch 1 2022Mental HealthPsychedelics
Microdosing Zebrafish with LSD Shows Potential AUDIO – GUPPY ABUSE? – Feb. 5, 2022 - Zebrafish might seem an odd choice in studying human health, but they share 70 per cent of their genes with us and are a popular nonhuman organism used by scientists to st... Read More...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 15 2022interventionPsychedelicsRecovery
Maine Might Legalize ‘magic mushroom’ to Treat Depression AUDIO – AND THEY TASTE GOOD TOO – Jan. 30, 2022 - In 2015, he took the leap. Because psilocybin is an illegal drug, he had to be discreet. He secured the psychedelic fungus from black market sources, then ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictionFeb 8 2022interventionMental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
Trending Now: Psychedelic Therapy WATCH – WHAT GOES AROUND... – Jan. 7, 2022 - “It’s understandable that it’s taken a while to get past the stigma, but ... I think within the next year, we’re going to see more federal funding and less of a hes... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 11 2022Mental HealthPsychedelicsRecovery
The Promises and Perils of Psychedelic Health Care WAY AHEAD OF THEIR TIME – Jan. 5, 2022 - While the federal government does not recognize a medical use for most of these drugs and says they have potential for abuse, some of the most prominent universities in the ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 11 2022Mental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
Ketamine Klinics Treating Mental Injury Emerge in Seattle KINDA KOOL IF IT WORKS – Nov. 28, 2021 - Carnahan is the director at a Westlake clinic opened last month by Field Trip Health, a Nasdaq-listed company selling medically supervised “psychedelic journeys.” She c... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthNov 30 2021PsychedelicsRecoveryRehab
Psilocybin Reveals Drug’s Efficacy Treating Depression DOORS OF ELATION – Nov. 13, 2021 - About 29.1% of patients who received the highest dose of psilocybin — the compound found in magic mushrooms — were in remission three weeks after treatment compared with 7.6% of t... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionNov 16 2021PsychedelicsRecovery
Shrooms! Shamans! Kosher LSD! Why LA Is Suddenly Tripping Out EVERY DAY IS A HIGH HOLIDAY – Oct. 21, 2021 - PICTURE YOURSELF NOT in a boat on a river but instead on a sectional sofa in a sunken living room in a majestic $9-million-dollar Point Dume mansion overlooking th... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionOct 26 2021Psychedelics
How the ‘Pleasure Molecule’ Will Reshape Treatment 4 Psychiatric Diseases and Addiction IT’S DOPE – Sept. 16, 2021 - Calipari emphasizes that “these data rewrite facts about dopamine, including what it encodes within the brain and how it drives behavior.” This is incredibly important as dop... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediadepressionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthPsychedelicsRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabSept 21 2021Trauma