by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Anxiety
My first psilocybin journey began around an altar in the middle of a second-story loft in a suburb of a small city on the Eastern Seaboard. On this adventure I would have a guide, a therapist who, like an unknown number of other therapists administering psychedelics...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Anxiety
“I’m going to take you on a ride here,” the music seemed to tell a severely depressed patient who had just been given a dose of the “magic mushrooms” active ingredient. “But I won’t abandon you.” The patient was recounting to Dutch postdoctoral neuroscientist Mendel...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Anxiety
After decades of political suppression, studies on psychedelics are now experiencing what top researchers have dubbed a renaissance. Here are four drugs that made recent breakthroughs in psychedelic science: Psilocybin for end-of-life psychological disorders Two...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Anxiety
Drug users insist that marijuana, amphetamines, LSD and other psychedelic agents give them pleasure, a euphoric “high” and a marvelous expansion of consciousness. A growing body of medical data suggests that they are kidding themselves on all these counts....
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | Anxiety, Cancer
Cancer is a brutal disease on both the body and mind. Not only do treatments like chemotherapy take a massive toll, but the emotional side effects can be hard to bear. Depression and anxiety are high among people with cancer, including those in remission. But two new...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | May 28, 2018 | Anxiety
Consuming crumb-size amounts of psychedelics — not to get high but to feel more focused and creative and present — has moved a tiny bit mainstream. As of one month ago, I knew of just one friend who microdosed; my friend, who is a musician, said he was taking 0.1...
