by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 3, 2018 | Addiction, Anxiety
This article is excerpted from Tom Shroder’s “Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy and the Power to Heal,” which comes out Sept. 9. The book focuses on researchers’ attempts to determine whether psychedelic drugs administered with talk therapy can help people with post-traumatic...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 3, 2018 | Addiction, Anxiety
“Is it too much to hope that a system of education may some day be devised, which shall give results, in terms of human development, commensurate with the time, money, energy and devotion expended? In such a system of education it may be that mescaline or some other...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 3, 2018 | Addiction, Depression
For 35 years Rick Doblin has worked to bring MDMA back into the world of medicine In 1982, a young psychedelic researcher studying at the New College in Florida embarked upon a month long workshop with the godfather of psychedelic medical research Stanislav Grof at...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 3, 2018 | Addiction, Anxiety
Scientists are researching how psychoactive drugs could be used to treat mental illness in what is being hailed the psychedelic renaissance A chemical in magic mushrooms could be used to treat people with depression who don’t respond to prescription drugs, according...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 3, 2018 | Addiction, Alcoholism
Hallucinogens may help people break free of destructive thoughts and addiction. Can a “mystical experience” be had legally? TOWSON, Maryland—Kathleen Conneally had smoked since she was 12, but one day in the spring of 2013, that changed in an instant. Conneally...
