by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 25, 2019 | Parkinson's Disease
In 1970, Oliver Sacks wrote five letters to various medical journals in the U.S. expressing his concern about the prescription drug levodopa, which had been developed just a year earlier. As a practicing neurologist, he had used levodopa (L-Dopa) to treat Parkinson’s...
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...
