Psychedelics- An Update

Psychedelic Science 2023 brought together 12,000 registrants in Denver, Colorado, four times as many people as the previous conference in 2017, crowning the movement to rehabilitate psychedelics for therapeutic use against depression and other disorders.

Science unveils unsuspected mechanisms of brain reconfiguration and ends decades of research bans imposed by the war on drugs, but serious obstacles remain to be overcome.

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Psychological Strengths with Psychedelic Use

A new study has found that psychedelic use is associated with specific psychological strengths, suggesting that psychedelics can have positive effects on mental well-being compared to other substances like cannabis and alcohol.

The findings, published in the International Journal of Wellbeing, indicate that self-transcendent experiences play a key role in predicting positive outcomes of psychedelic use.

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Microdosing and Authenticity

A recent study found that on the microdosing day and the day thereafter, state authenticity was significantly higher.

Furthermore, the number of activities and the satisfaction with them were higher on the day when participants microdosed, while the following day only the number of activities was higher.

The researchers propose that feeling and behaving authentically could have a central role in explaining the positive effects of microdosing on health and wellbeing that are reported by their study.

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