This podcast discusses how psychedelics reopen critical periods of learning, and how the true benefit of psychedelics could be in learning how best to reopen those critical periods, how long they’re open for, and which therapeutic frameworks and integration practices could best take advantage of them.
Read morePodcast: The Shadow Side of Psychedelics
how the nature of capitalism and returning profits to shareholders affects the concept of set and setting; how easy it is to prescribe ketamine and the puppy mill clinics popping up everywhere; how innovators are racing to the bottom to get ahead; the designer drug epidemic likely leading us to a Prozac Nation 2.0; digital narcissism, Instagram “Shamans,” and the dangers of cults; chemists trying to take the experience out of the drug; the overuse of psychedelics creating super egos; and much more.
Read moreRisks with Psychedelics
The most common forms of extended difficulty were feelings of anxiety and fear, existential struggle, social disconnection, depersonalization and derealization.
For approximately one-third of the participants, problems persisted for over a year, and for a sixth, they endured for more than three years.
It was found that a shorter duration of difficulties was predicted by knowledge of dose, drug type and lower levels of difficulty reported during the psychoactive experience, while a narrower range of difficulties was predicted by taking the drug in a guided setting.
Read moreIntensity of Psychedelic Experience
A new study suggests that dosage, age, and neuroticism may predict the intensity of a psychedelic experience, whether mystical (positive) or challenging.
Read morePsychedelics for Addiction?
Grinspoon discusses recovery, addiction and whether psychedelics might have a role in addiction treatment.
Read moreHPPD: Hallucinogen-Persisting Perception Disorder
Here’s a look at HPPD, the persistence of psychedelic-like perceptual phenomena after the acute effects of a psychedelic have worn off. It may be rare, but it is a risk and not well understood.
Read morePsychedelics for OCD?
A team of researchers has analysed the experience of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) who have taken psychedelics, finding 30% experienced relief from their symptoms.
Read moreFalse Insights with Psychedelics
Psychedelic insights are thought to be highly valuable and therapeutic—but can they be false?
Researchers suggest this is sometimes the case.
Read morePsychiatrists Have Positive Attitude Towards Psychedelics
This recent study shows a striking positive shift in attitudes toward the therapeutic potential of hallucinogens among American psychiatrists since 2016, with a majority of responding psychiatrists planning to incorporate hallucinogen-assisted therapy into their practice if regulatory approval is granted.
Read moreNew Psilocybin Research
This recently published study showed that psilocybin use is associated with persisting improvements in mental health and wellbeing.
Read morePsychedelics and Neanderthals
Strands of human hair found in a Menorca, Spain, burial site gave researchers insight into hallucinogenic use during prehistoric times by some of the earliest species of humans.
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