by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 25, 2019 | Depression
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted psilocybin therapy a Breakthrough Therapy designation for the second time in a year, this time with a view on accelerating trials testing its efficacy treating major depressive disorder (MDD). Back in late...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 25, 2019 | Psychedelic Medicine
Psilocybin cubensis, a psychedelic species of fungi commonly known as “magic mushrooms,” has been part of human culture for thousands of years. Known to both ancient cultures and to modern science as being able to reliably produce a mystical experience, these...
by EmpathiCSubstanceS | Nov 25, 2019 | Psychedelic Medicine
We’ve come a long way from doctors endorsing cigarettes and authority figures saying that nicotine is perfectly safe, but even in this day and age when we know that tobacco is the single leading cause of preventable death,[1. CDC Tobacco Fact Sheet:...
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...
