by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 8, 2020 | Addiction, Alcoholism, Anxiety, Depression
Does microdosing actually do anything, or is it a posh urban myth? A research team in New Zealand is about to find out in the world’s first randomized, controlled clinical trial. LSD has largely been ignored while the world gushes over legal weed and...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 8, 2020 | Addiction, Alcoholism, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder
The movement to decriminalize psychedelics has spread so rapidly this year that it can be hard to keep track. But Decriminalize Nature, the group coordinating many of these initiatives, is up to the task. The group recently shared a map with the most up-to-date...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 24, 2019 | Anxiety
Scientists from the Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Unit are commencing a landmark human clinical trial to explore the effects of psilocybin in persons with chronic anorexia nervosa (AN). The new trial adds to a growing body of evidence finding psychedelic...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Sep 9, 2019 | Anxiety
The research center, with $17 million from donors, aims to give “psychedelic medicine” a long-sought foothold in the scientific establishment. Since childhood, Rachael Petersen had lived with an unexplainable sense of grief that no drug or talk therapy could entirely...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jun 27, 2019 | Anxiety
Scientists are looking into what psychedelics do to inspire people to act pro-environmentally. fter taking LSD, Bill stood in his kitchen in Merseyside, England, staring at a large tree. When the tree started to speak to him, Bill only found it strange that the tree...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jun 11, 2019 | Anxiety
IN AN AIRY Denver café populated almost entirely by young people staring at laptops, Travis Tyler Fluck—dressed in an orange velour jacket, over which is draped a thin braided lock of hair—takes out his phone and pulls up Craigslist. A quick search lands him on a post...
