In response to some of your requests, this guest-post portrays the context, experience, and potential value of psychedelic therapy for those struggling with addiction (and other stuff). By someone who’s been t
There’s plenty more data where all that comes from. So much so that the U.S. Federal Drug Administration has granted breakthrough therapy designation status to MDMA as a treatment for PTSD, and to psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression. Both compounds have been cleared for fast-track r...
involved in the generation of chronic pain syndromes and consequently treatments with psychedelic agents aimed at augmenting brain connectivity (see below) may be therapeutically beneficial, particularly in those patients who respond poorly to opioid therapy or other analgesics, particularly for chronic ...
Dr. Luedtke is the Principal Investigator of an MDMA-assisted couples therapy for PTSD trial at the Phoenix VA in coordination with MAPS. She will be providing an overview of the proposed treatment protocol and hypothesized results of this intervention. She’s worked with those impacted by trauma...
Similar to how narrative medicine techniques involve clinicians developing literary competencies “to absorb, interpret, and respond to stories” shared by patients (Charon, 2001), a literacy of conceptual metaphor can enhance narrative skills for healthcare providers in psychedelic therapy. The ability ...
(−)-DOI in healthy human volunteers nor clinical patients have not been conducted. Psilocybin in tandem with Motivational Enhancement therapy reduced heavy alcohol intake maintained at follow-up to 36 weeks after one or two supervised sessions in participants diagnosed with alcohol dependence (Bogen...
Now he’s in discussions with Beckley Retreats to design his own excursions for burned-out consultants, bankers, and others to help them “rediscover parts of themselves they’ve forgotten.” Sure, psychedelic journeys can seem more efficient than slower methods like therapy or daily meditation,...
Either way, Masha's dumb decision may be necessary to the story — there's really no plot without it. But even from her somewhat twisted perspective, it's counterproductive. You need a goodset and setting, as Masha herself says in the finale, for any psychedelic therapy. The patient's ...
In a further open-label pilot study in 2015 on addiction, this time to alcohol, Michael Bogenschultz and colleagues at the University of New Mexico, United States, gave psilocybin to 10 alcohol dependent patients (4 women) in addition to standard motivational enhancement therapy (Bogenschutz et ...
Many hope the psychedelic tea will heal physical and mental afflictions after conventional medications and therapy failed. Their problems include eating disorders, depression, substance use disorders and PTSD. The rising demand for ayahuasca has led to hundreds of churches like this one, which ...