by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jan 1, 2024 | Psychedelic Medicine
The standard antidepressants, we know what they do. Brain imaging studies show they very rapidly turn down the danger center in the brain. So you wander around for a few weeks, feel better about things, you smile a little bit more, and then people smile back at you....
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jan 1, 2024 | Psychedelic Medicine
It doesn’t take a third eye to see that, at long last, Americans seem primed to turn on. If you’ve heard yourself utter the phrase “plant medicine” when what you mean is “shrooms,” if you’ve found yourself absently Googling “ayahuasca retreats” the way you used to...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Dec 8, 2023 | Psychedelic Medicine
Has anyone else noticed that health and wellness has become hip? Instead of the old tropes such as football players not trying in school and partying until you are sick made someone popular, now environmental awareness, treating your body as a temple and expanding...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Sep 2, 2023 | Psychedelic Medicine
In the past few years, thrill-seekers from Hollywood, Silicon Valley and beyond have been travelling to South America to take part in so-called Ayahuasca retreats. Their goal: to partake in a brewed concoction made from a vine plant Banisteriopsis caapi, traditionally...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Sep 2, 2023 | Psychedelic Medicine
With scientific progress marching on and psychedelic use among adults exploding, the need for creating infrastructure and delivering safe and legal access is already upon us. Recently published data from the annual Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey by the National...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Sep 2, 2023 | Psychedelic Medicine
A quarter of the world’s population is estimated to be affected by mental health or neurological challenges in their lifetime. In 2014, approximately 20% of U.S. adults had a mental illness and 22.5 million Americans aged 12 or older were in need of treatment for...
