How Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick The Habit
Carine Chen-McLaughlin smoked for more than 40 years. She didn’t want to be a smoker. She’d tried to stop dozens of times over the decades. But she always came back. Then she heard about a clinical trial to treat nicotine addiction with something a little unusual: psilocybin.
The new research looked at cancer patients who took part in a study nearly five years ago.
Nearly five years after a group of cancer patients were given a single dose of a psychedelic drug to ease depression and anxiety, new research finds that many of them are still feeling the positive effects.
Rigorous Study Backs A Psychedelic Treatment For Major Depression
The hallucinogenic chemical psilocybin produced in some mushrooms helped people with major depression in a study that also included supportive psychotherapy.
Regulators will soon grapple with how to safely administer powerful psychedelics for treating depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Regulators will soon grapple with how to safely administer powerful psychedelics for treating depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Psilocybin-assisted therapy of major depressive disorder using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a therapeutic frame
Psychedelic-assisted therapy is based on the premise that psychedelic substances can act as catalysts or adjuncts to psychotherapeutic processes.
Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Closer to Medicinal Use (It’s Not Just Your Imagination)
03 Oct Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Closer to Medicinal Use (It’s Not Just Your Imagination)
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have suggested that psilocybin, which is found in hallucinogenic mushrooms, be reclassified from a Schedule I drug, with no known medical benefit, to a Schedule IV drug, which is akin to prescription sleeping pills.Credit…Anthony Devlin/PA Wire, via Associated Press
Effects of psilocybin therapy on personality structure
To explore whether psilocybin with psychological support modulates personality parameters in patients suffering from treatment‐resistant depression (TRD).
