I had an 11-year addiction to heroin — and I beat it with ayahuasca
I started taking the Amazonian psychedelic ayahuasca two years ago because I had an 11-year addiction to heroin I couldn’t shake. Photo: Darryl Dyck, Associated Press
Psychedelic ayahuasca works against severe depression, study finds
“Leon” is a young Brazilian man who has long struggled with depression. He keeps an anonymous blog, in Portuguese, where he describes the challenge of living with a mental illness that affects some 300 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
Which U.S. state will be the first to legalize shrooms?
It was nice to read that Jersey City has become the first city in the state to decriminalize marijuana.
Psychedelic Medicine 101: Psilocybin and the magic of mushrooms
For decades certain drugs, intially used solely by doctors and researchers, have been ostracized from the world of legitimate science.
Inside the push to legalize magic mushrooms for depression and PTSD
WHEN TODD’S PSYCHIATRIST suggested he start taking psychedelics, he figured it was a joke.
Why Doctors Want to Reclassify Psilocybin, the Drug That Puts the ‘Magic’ in Mushrooms
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University hope to eventually reclassify psilocybin from a schedule I to schedule IV drug, according to a news release from the research institution.
Fifteen years of crime reporting left me with PTSD. Magic mushrooms helped me begin to recover
My psychedelic experiences aimed at self-healing were transformative. In them, the same gunshot victims who had haunted my dreams now returned with a message of hope…
The Existential Medicine
The diagnosis of Clark Martin’s liver cancer came at the same time as the birth of his daughter, with doctors informing the clinical psychologist that he likely had about a year and a half to live.
The Oldest Representations Of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms In The World (Sahara Desert, 9000 – 7000 B.P.)
Rock paintings and incisions of the prehistoric periods are to be found all over the world, and serve as a testimony to the pre-literate history of human cultures.
Ibogaine treatment outcomes for opioid dependence from a twelve-month follow-up observational study
The psychoactive indole alkaloid ibogaine has been associated with encouraging treatment outcomes for opioid dependence. The legal status of ibogaine in New Zealand provides a unique opportunity to evaluate durability of treatment outcomes.