by EmpathiCSubstanceS | May 1, 2018 | Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder
By R. Andrew Sewell With the current renaissance in psychedelic research, after a forty-year moratorium, undergraduates interested in the topic are increasingly starting to ask: How can I get involved? Unfortunately, psychedelics are still heavily stigmatized, and...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 25, 2018 | Psychedelic Medicine
MDMA, the active ingredient in the drug Ecstasy, has been reviled as a menace and even a killer. Now some therapists claim it can help light the way out of a traumatic past. Sarah lived in a basement for a few weeks when she was a child. But in a way, she lived there...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 21, 2018 | Kambo
By Tom Pinkson, Ph.D. Marti was a bright, optimistic, attractive 40-year-old woman when she first entered a support group for cancer patients that I facilitated at the Center for Attitudinal Healing in Tiburon, California. It wasn’t until a few years later that her...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 21, 2018 | Addiction
Two years ago I wrote a post entitled, “LSD Microdosing Deserves More Serious Research.” In it, I made the case that there is enough anecdotal evidence out there to conclude that LSD when taken in “microdoses” – doses that are a tiny...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 17, 2018 | Depression
Ketamine has “shown promise” in the rapid treatment of major depression and suicidal thoughts, a US study says. Ketamine has a reputation as a party drug but is licensed as an anaesthetic. The study found use of the drug via a nasal spray led to...
