by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 25, 2019 | OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, also known as OCD, is a subversive and hard-to-treat condition that in extreme cases can have bizarre, disruptive, and even life-threatening consequences. You may have heard people refer to small idiosyncrasies as “being OCD,” but the...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 25, 2019 | Neuropathy
I was recently reading through the comment section on a University of Glasgow study that indicated that cannabis can help people manage pain from peripheral neuropathy, a type of nerve damage that causes pain in the extremities of the body, and I saw some interesting...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 25, 2019 | Cluster Headaches
Most of the time when we think about how psychedelics can help people, we think about how these medicines can assist with spiritual growth and the treatment of mental afflictions like PTSD and anxiety, or how they help people with addictions to more harmful drugs like...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 25, 2019 | Bipolar Disorder
You can extract more than 70 different components from a cannabis plant, technically known as cannabis sativa. Two of the most common constituents are delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (known colloquially as THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). Because CBD is not as regulated as...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 24, 2019 | Addiction
The heavy hallucinogen ibogaine is illegal in the US, but some addicts are flocking to Mexican clinics for it, hoping to be cured. A physician investigates. ILLUSTRATION: YUKAI DU I’m not sure I’ve ever met an opioid user who didn’t want to quit, and as an emergency...
