I saw our country as a nation that had no clue what drug abuse and addiction were about, yet rushed ahead to 'fix' it and made exactly the sort of mistakes that people make when they’re desperate for a solution to a problem they never really understood in the first place.
She began to recognize how vulnerable everyone was to something about which so little was understood.
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It’s likely because of all the favorable attention that hallucinogens have received in the popular media.
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One expert observed that “the current trend towards ‘micro-dosing’ (consuming tiny amounts of psychedelic drugs to improve creativity)… may have a strong placebo component due to widespread cultural expectations that frame the response.”
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Maybe selling hallucinogens generates a better return than treatment for hallucinogen disorders.
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If the dose is in fact subtherapeutic, then what causes the effects so enthusiastically reported by the user?
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Will society benefit from greater access to this drug? Are there potential problems we haven’t anticipated?
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The relative importance of set and setting suggests that the environment in an LSD experience should be carefully controlled.
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I recall several cases admitted to the inpatient psych ward at one hospital where I worked in Boston, usually with severe psychotic symptoms.
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My concern is that these same hallucinogens have a pronounced tendency to escape the research environment and find their way out into the streets
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It’s the sort of evidence that convinced authorities to greatly expand access to opioids for chronic pain patients.
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Something about this class of drugs appears to turn some scientists into the equivalent of helpless fanboys.
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Some of the adverse effects reported by K2 and Spice users are no doubt related to unidentified substances that adulterate the product.
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