Psychedelics and Depression: What You Need to Know
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Depression and psychedelics? Do they go together? Depression rates are spiking. Here’s how psychedelics may help.
While seasonal depression is a reality for millions of people, this year is unique due to the pandemic. More than…
Opioid Addiction Ibogaine Treatment Centers Could Soon Be Coming to Canada
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Obtaining treatment for opioid addiction in specialized psychedelics clinics could soon be a reality for millions of Canadians. Vancouver-based Universal Ibogaine has announced its partnership with Westmount Park Investments to develop addiction…
Amsterdam Launches the World’s First Public Psilocybin Depression Treatment Program
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A groundbreaking depression treatment center has opened in the Netherlands. The Synthesis clinic uses psilocybin to help clients battling depression and other mental health disorders.
Psilocybin, which comes from several strains of fungi,…
How Psychotherapy and Psychedelics Work Together at This Ketamine Center
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If you ask Veronika Gold about Polaris Insight Center, the San Francisco-based ketamine-assisted psychotherapy clinic she founded two years ago with a handful of colleagues, she will tell you it is the actualization of a lifelong dream…
This Wearable Ketamine Device Could Be a Breakthrough In Non-Opioid Pain Management
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A new wearable ketamine device could help treat pain without the need for habit-forming opioids. Research-stage biotech startup Bexson Biomedical and medical device manufacturer Stevanato Group have partnered on the device.
“Post-operative…
Healing Addiction With Psychedelic Therapy
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Craig Salerno has seen too much senseless death. “Unfortunately, I can no longer count on my hands how many people I’ve witnessed overdose, die, suicide, and to me, it’s an absolute crisis. Addiction is a crisis and it appears to be on…
Ibogaine Therapy Offers Hope For Opioid Addiction
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At his worst, D.F. thought heroin wasn’t his problem. It was his solution.
It soothed his physical pain, killed the uncomfortable emotions, and quieted the noise in his head. He began self-medicating with daily doses of heroin, methadone,…
The Risks and Rewards of Psychedelic Medicine
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“What in the world is going on here? How do we wrap our heads around this?” Dr. Roland Griffiths is asking the question on the minds of many psychiatrists and scientists.
Dr. Griffiths is director of the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness…
Lauren Taus Brings All Her Strengths to Ketamine Therapy
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I left my conversation with Lauren Taus thinking about Henry David Thoreau, the early American essayist, poet and philosopher.
Which wasn’t exactly what I had expected.
If you Google her name, you will see many images of Lauren in her…
Heroic Hearts Project Connects Military Veterans with Psychedelic Therapy
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On an improvised 70-mile marathon through the Andes Mountains of Peru, alone and severely dehydrated, it occurred to Jesse Gould that he might die.
A former Army Ranger, Gould knew about pushing himself to the physical limit. Now his experience…