Ketamine, meet Placebo
Translation: the absence of adequate masking would presumably explain why ketamine appeared superior – due to an error in the study design.
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Ayahuasca on the Brain
When the trip ends, the writer acknowledges, the user may be “…throwing up or having trouble at the other end.”
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In The House of Shrooms
Also, one of the local rags had a few Shroom House products tested and discovered, to no one’s surprise, that some had been made from synthetics. Not the ‘real thing’, after all.
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When ketamine isn’t the cure…
If 25% of patients in studies either 1) didn’t benefit or 2) had a negative experience, perhaps even a terrifying one– that’s a lot.
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Peyote Blues
Easy to see how given the right combination of circumstances, it could be wiped out in a relatively short period.
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Stop Licking Those Toads, People
“As we say with most things you come across in a national park, whether it be a banana slug, unfamiliar mushroom, or a large toad with glowing eyes in the dead of night, please refrain from licking…”
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Psychedelica Update: Who Invests?
The idea is to get into the market early, grab as much share as you can, so that when the inevitable shakeout occurs, and smaller vendors drop out, you’re left in the catbird seat.
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Pro Football Hero Goes Psychedelic
…where the NFL and the solons of pro sports may be waiting on the results of the clinical trials and approval from FDA before they proceed, those same young fans are more likely to just go ahead and buy the stuff off the friend of a friend and, you know, take it.
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Better Living Thru Chemistry
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.
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Toad Hall Reopens
There are synthetics that will do the job, but apparently purists reject them as inferior.
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Most Addiction Specialists Support Psychedelics for SUDs?
I know many clinicians who otherwise support psychedelics for therapeutic use are nonetheless concerned about the cottage industry that could grow up around them if legalized.
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Mike Tyson Goes Psychedelic
Mike insists that everybody who knows him has commented on how much better he seems since he started up with the toad venom. Of course, I’m not sure how often people are willing to openly contradict Iron Mike.
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