Revisiting Psychedelics as Medicine
Many potential customers for psychedelic assisted therapy view the trip as a barrier. They’d rather not face the risks inherent in such an experience.
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Pot and Pregnancy
From a treatment perspective, our goal has to be to provide patients with accurate information about cannabis use and its associated risks, so that their decisions will be informed ones.
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Mushrooming Athletes
Because studies also suggest some real risks. Dangers, in fact. It’s possible that the current wave of fawning reports of miraculous cures could be replaced by stories of horrific incidents.
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About Ketamine for Depression
Antidepressant benefits that are almost immediate but wear off over time. From a patient’s perspective, that could be a real drawback, especially in view of how costly the treatments might have been.
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How Alcohol Research Gets It Wrong
…there could have been dozens if not hundreds of articles and TV features actively promoting incorrect information. Conditioning the audience against newer and more accurate findings, if they contradicted what had become popular belief.
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Weed and Sleep
With tolerance can come withdrawal — symptoms of which can actually interfere with your ability to go to sleep and remain there.
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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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Is .05 the Sweet Spot?
…simply by lowering the standard BAC from .08 to .05, we could save an estimated 1500 lost lives every year. Not to mention approximately $121 billion in associated medical, legal, property, and productivity costs.
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Death Letter
The researchers were interested in whether receipt of such a letter would cause the physician to be more cautious in prescribing in future. The answer: It did.
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Dr. Friedman on the Brain & Pot
They seem proud of that, as if it were evidence of strength of character, rather than a sign of deep dependence on the drug.
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Update on Pot & Pain
Non-drug remedies do tend to require considerably more effort than simply firing up a vape pen or chewing an edible. Medications are popular precisely because they take effect so quickly and are less likely to interrupt our busy lifestyle.
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That Alcohol Report from Canada
…of course alcohol isn’t healthy. It’s a damn toxin, people.
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