The Psychedelic Renaissance is Here. Will it Last This Time?
FromĀ Massive: Increasing evidence suggests that psychedelics may revolutionize mental health care. In order for this "psychedelic renaissance" to last, scientists and citizens will need...
Sunday Meditation: Are Non-ordinary States “Freeing” the Brain to Truly See?
On his blog Metaphysical Speculations, Bernardo Kastrup challenges conventional psychiatric assumptions that the brain produces and controls consciousness. Kastrup cites two recent studies published...
When Legal Drugs Harm and Illegal Drugs Help
FromĀ Scientific American: In a day and age when people are increasingly becoming addicted to prescription drugs, and increasingly helped by the therapeuticĀ effects of illicit...
“Scientists Push to Renew Psychedelic Drug Research for Psychiatry”
-CBC Radio interviews UK neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt, Mark Haden of MAPS, and historian Erika Dyck about the past and present politics and science of psychedelic research.
Sunday History Channel: Seventy-five Years of Psychedelic Psychiatry
Mo Costandi provides a brief history in The Guardian of research activities using psychedelic substances such as LSD for psychiatric and psychotherapeutic purposes. Costandi...
āClub Drug Ketamine Gains Traction As A Treatment For Depressionā
NPR reports on how ketamine is being used off-label to treat depression.
The Promise of LSD Microdoses and Other Psychedelics
In this interview forĀ Scientific American, psychiatrist John Halpern discusses some of the potentially therapeutic effects of peyote, ayahuasca, psilocybin, MDMA and other psychedelics.
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āFDA Forced to Release Adverse Event Reports on Psychiatric Drugsā
Following a lawsuit brought by Andrew Thibault of Parents Against Pharmaceutical Abuse (PAPA), the FDA has produced adverse event and severe adverse event reports...
“I Did Psychedelic First Aid at a Festival in Costa Rica”
-Eamon Armstrong describes the Zendo Project, and his own experience providing support for people taking psychedelic drugs.
The Ketamine Consensus?
FromĀ Discover Magazine: A group of psychiatrists from the American Psychiatric Association has recently released A Consensus Statement on the Use of Ketamine in the...
“The Truth about Psychedelics and Mental Illness”
-New York Magazine discusses two recent studies that looked at the long-term relationships between use of psychedelics and the development of mental illnesses.
“The Manual of Psychedelic Support”
-Zevic Mishor writes about the development and release of a free guide to supporting people through extreme states induced by the use of psychedelic drugs.
What Is “Normal” Anyway?
FromĀ Scientific American: Although "normal" technically means average or typical, both researchers and the general public often view normality as a standard we should all...
Medicine Can Soothe a Troubled Mind, but Not Without Costs
FromĀ The New York Times: In a new book,Ā Blue Dreams, psychologist and patient Lauren Slater critiques the drug-based model of psychiatric care, debunking the chemical...
Tripping for Knowledge: The Psychedelic Epistemologist
In this interview forĀ 3:AM Magazine, Chris Letheby argues that even though psychedelics may induce delusions or imaginary phenomena, theirĀ use can also lead to accurate...
