The journey from ecstasy to medicine: Rick Doblin’s long, strange MDMA trip

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...

Magic mushrooms chemicals could help people with depression, says leading psychiatrist

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...

Live Every Day Like You’re on Mushrooms

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...

Nicholas Powers Ph.D. – Psychedelics, Race, Where They Intersect, and Where They Don’t

by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 2, 2018 | Psychedelic Medicine

Podcast Show Topics Diversity in research Monica Williams – Diversity in the psychedelic research The trust between diverse populations and institutional research History of forced sterilizations and the Tuskegee syphilis study The importance of storytelling and...

Is Ayahuasca an Antidote to Modern Life?

by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Feb 2, 2018 | Psychedelic Medicine

Jeremy Narby, Ph.D. In 1995 I published a book called The Cosmic Serpent that dealt with ayahuasca and other subjects. The enthusiasm of many readers took me by surprise. In the book I describe ayahuasca as foul-tasting and my experience drinking it as an ordeal...