At last a treatment for meth?
I'm curious as to whether the reductions in meth use could be expected to lead to eventual abstinence where meth was concerned. That's been the hope for other maintenance treatments, for the most part unrealized.
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Testing…Testing
California State government has realized that these labs are essentially willing to fudge their results in order to please their customers in the cannabis industry.
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Is there a role for cannabis in OUD Treatment?
They found no clear correlation between cannabis use and a lessening of opioid dependence.
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Why Tripping Feels Life-Changing
What seemed so incredibly important while under the influence had lost a lot of its charm when sober.
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Rehab for Pain Patients
Simply bringing up the possibility of ‘doing without’ could be immensely threatening.
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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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Anatomy of a Mushroom
Once again based on experience, I’m confident that many of the folks who will try psilocybin in future, because of all the favorable publicity, will fall into those ‘excluded’ categories.
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Be Careful Where You Work?
CDC claims that 1 in 5 drug overdoses in 2020 – or 20% — involved people in those two sectors alone. Something to think about.
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Will This Make a Difference?
And if there were damage, it’d be our brains that were affected, right? The very organ we’re asking now to evaluate its own functioning. It’s not a happy thought.
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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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A Pain in the Neck (and lower back)
…the research team said their finding “raises serious questions about the use of opioid therapy for acute low back and neck pain.” Such as, why risk it? If it isn’t effective, and for some, can make things worse.
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A New Drug to Treat CUD?
An estimate of today’s CUD population in the US: 14.2 million persons.
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Things Fall Apart
In 1961, two Harvard students ended up in the mental hospital after consuming psilocybin…” Not long afterwards, Harvard lost much of its enthusiasm for the (psilocybin research) program.
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