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...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 10, 2018 | Pain
Joel Brown says that he didn’t know a lot about pot’s properties before he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer in 2014. “But when you’re facing death, you want to really become part of the treatment and figure out what’s going on,” he says. “So I started...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Apr 9, 2018 | Addiction
Researchers at the Imperial College of London have for the first time mapped the effects of LSD on the brain using fMRI and other scans while patients were under the influence of the drug. The images show the remarkable neurological activity produced by the powerful...
