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Are Shrooms And Other Psychedelics The Next Big Thing? This Former Biogen And Pfizer Exec Thinks So

This isn’t the psychedelic you remember from...

Study participants at some of the country’s leading medical research centers are going through intense therapy and six-hour psychedelic journeys deep into their minds to do things like quit smoking and worry less

Heroin addiction is blamed on human weakness and social problems and addicts are labeled as criminals. But it is now known that some humans suffer from a lack of natural opiates in the brain, which causes them to seek the illegal remedy of heroin. They are not really criminals; they just need medical supplements.

Traditionally used in shamanistic ceremonies in the Amazon basin, ayahuasca is now also used to help people overcome addictions to drugs and alcohol.

Psychedelic-assisted therapy refers to therapeutic practices involving psychedelic drugs, oftentimes utilizing serotonergic psychedelics such as LSD, psilocybin, dmt, MDMA, mescaline, and 2C-B.

Because of how psychedelics have been portrayed in the media and lumped in with addictive drugs by law enforcement, it can seem paradoxical to most people that you could use psychedelics to treat addiction. But they are remarkably effective.

This series on the psychedelic treatment of addiction is written by Benjamin Taub from psychedelicsforaddiction.com. Here, part one offers an introduction to psychedelic therapy as a treatment for addiction – and subsequent parts provide details on preparing yourself for treatment, undergoing the treatment itself, and post-treatment integration.

The criminalization of people who use psychedelics is rooted in myths that are the vestiges of colonialism and the drug war – and, one by one, those myths are crumbling down.

Several studies are exploring whether drugs such as magic mushrooms could treat addiction to everything from cigarettes to cocaine.

Trials of a psychedelic drug developed as a medicine with the potential to cure addictions are to begin next year.

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Robert Rhatigan struggled with alcoholism for over ten years.

In addition to reducing symptoms of depression, the psychedelic drug 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) appears to cause changes in inflammatory biomarkers, according to preliminary research published in the journal Psychopharmacology.

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says the U.S. should loosen its ban on psychedelic mushrooms.

The movement to decriminalize psychedelics has spread so rapidly this year that it can be hard to keep track. But Decriminalize Nature, the group coordinating many of these initiatives, is up to the task.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has...

The unmet need in mental health is huge. If psychedelics can reduce that misery, the benefits would be mind-blowing.

A doctor reveals the fascinating story of psychedelic research in 1950s’ Canada and its profound implications in treatment and therapy.