by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 13, 2019 | Depression
A new nasal spray for depression, utilizing a novel drug called esketamine, has passed the last step on its way to final FDA approval. An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted in favor of the new drug’s risk/benefit profile meaning the...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 13, 2019 | Depression
The active ingredients of ketamine, a popular club drug, show promise in battling deep despair. In a move that may clear the way for the first new treatment in years for depression, an expert panel recommended on Tuesday that federal regulators approve a nasal spray...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 8, 2019 | Kambo
Trying to figure out what to put in our bodies to make them healthier is a full-fledged American pastime, which is why writer and journalist Michael Pollan has emerged as a beloved nutritional explorer. Pollan, the author of In Defense of Food and The Omnivore’s...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 8, 2019 | Anxiety
In a quest to ease pressures on the Brazilian prison system, mental health workers have opted to give prison inmates the psychedelic brew ayahuasca, in the hopes of helping them to work through their deeply-rooted emotional traumas. It is no secret that the current...
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...
