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Researchers are exploring possible causal links between use of magic mushrooms and opioid dependency.
If proven safe and effective in humans, such “no-trip psychedelics” could potentially deliver relief from depression and other mental health conditions to millions more people than could traditional psychedelics.
After psychedelics, people are more likely to have “non-physicalist” beliefs, according to a new study.
Since launching last year, Fireside Project has supported more than 1,700 people on its Psychedelic Peer Support Line, and now the organization is promoting more inclusion and diversity.
Ketamine coupled with psychotherapy shows promise as a treatment option for alcohol use disorder in a Phase 2 clinical trial, adding momentum to the use of psychedelics for treat ing substance abuse.
The Johns Hopkins study is the longest follow-up to date and indicates that therapy protocols and other factors are important to positive treatment outcomes.
The pairing of sound and color is the most common form of synesthesia on psychedelics, researchers found.
The risks psychedelics may hold for older generations are still unknown, but the rewards could include treating pain, processing grief and trauma, and helping women in menopause.
A review of psilocybin therapy for terminal patients becomes more relevant in light of recent research from Compass Pathways.
Veterans Administration medical centers across the country are creating and deploying protocols for psychedelic therapy.
