by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 8, 2020 | Alcoholism, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, PTSD
It’s the latest victory for psychedelic-reform advocates in the U.S. On Tuesday night, the Santa Cruz City Council unanimously voted to decriminalize a wide range of psychedelics. The resolution would make “the personal use and personal possession of...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 2, 2019 | PTSD
Recreational use of MDMA, also known as ecstasy, is forbidden in Israel where the drug is considered dangerous. But a trial treatment may soon change that. MDMA, popularly known as ecstasy, is a drug more commonly associated with raves and nightclubs than a...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 8, 2019 | PTSD
WHEN TODD’S PSYCHIATRIST suggested he start taking psychedelics, he figured it was a joke. IT WASN’T. THE former corporate executive from Colorado retired in 2006 after an MRI revealed his spine was riddled with a dozen tumors called hemangiomas, which later spread to...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Sep 21, 2018 | PTSD
As final trials move to establish MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a legal and legitimate clinical treatment, a new study has recently been published demonstrating the results of the world’s first clinical trial for another, albeit more controversial, application...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 20, 2018 | PTSD
How do blind people experience psychedelic drugs? This is the topic of an interesting, but unusual, paper just out in Consciousness and Cognition. The paper’s authors are University of Bath researchers Sara Dell’Erba, David J.Brown, and Michael J.Proulx. However, the...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Jul 12, 2018 | PTSD
It was only after U.S. veteran Jonathan Lubecky pulled the trigger on a loaded gun aimed at his head and it misfired that he finally decided to seek help. He had tried to commit suicide five times, after struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a...
