Interview With Ronan Levy

The mental healthcare crisis is escalating: Are Psychedelic Medicines the Solution? Can psychedelics health North America fight against anxiety, depression and addiction?

It is well known that during these unprecedented times of lockdowns and fear, our society’s mental health has taken a toll. Unfortunately, few realize how dire the situation has become.
In some respects, this pandemic has accelerated other health care crises: such as the addiction and overdose crisis, the depression crisis, and the anxiety crisis.
These crises can be hard to see when the illnesses are often hidden by those that are experiencing them, out of shame.

However, we can’t start talking about solutions to the problem until we see how big the problem is.
Therefore, in this episode, we are going to take a look at:
1. Some of the data regarding addiction, depression, and anxiety levels during the pandemic, and show you how stark this increase has been;

2. We will discuss a novel solution which has a lot of evidence backing it up: using psychedelics like magic mushrooms and LSD to treat these maladies of the mind;

Enjoy the episode!

Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:37 – Increased rates of Anxiety, Depression & Addiction in North America
6:24 – Psychedelic inspired medicines – potential solutions?

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Links:
Rates of addiction since the epidemic began:
https://www.kten.com/story/44309290/continued-increase-in-substance-abuse-after-pandemic

Rates of overdose:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2021/07/16/us-experiences-a-historic-spike-in-overdose-deaths-infographic/?sh5452ed443650&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1626828792173000&usg=AOvVaw3NuNLOX7F8X_pg9Uh0Rnhv

Rates of depression:
https://www.meetfieldtrip.com/news/news-details/2021/More-than-80-of-Americans-report-one-or-more-symptoms-of-depression-and-many-have-turned-to-substances-to-cope-with-negative-emotions-during-COVID-19-Pandemic-according-to-Field-Trip-Healths-First-Annual-State-of-Mind-Survey/default.aspx
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00175-z

Research into psychedelics as potential alternative treatments

Psilocybin: A potential treatment for depression:
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/psilocybin-therapy-major-depression-trial-results-johns-hopkins/
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/219413/magic-mushroom-compound-performs-well-antidepressant/

Psilocybin : A potential cure for Smoking:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27441452/

Ibogaine: A potential cure for addiction:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00952990.2017.1310218

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Scientists Create A New DMT: Can it Treat Depression? | Psychedelic Therapy

When it comes to treating mental health conditions with psychedelic therapy, one of the most promising compounds is DMT, the main ingredient in the brew ayahuasca. While DMT may have many potential advantages over other similar compounds such as psilocybin, for example, its short duration of effect, the hallucination can be very intense.

It is an open question whether the mental health benefits we see from psychedelic therapy are due to the experience one undergoes when having a hallucination, or whether it comes strictly from the drug’s effects on the brain. If it is the latter, then hypothetically speaking, we could create a version of DMT that does not cause a hallucination.

Enter Psilera Biosciences.

Psilera is a psychedelic medicines company working to create next-generation psychedelics for use in therapeutic settings. Specifically, they aim to create non-psychedelic versions of classical psychedelics such as psilocybin, LSD and DMT.

PSIL-002 is Psilera’s version of non-hallucinogenic DMT. They recently completed a pre-clinical trial in mice that showed that their version of DMT was safe and non-psychedelic. Now they have to show that their version of DMT can treat depression and addiction, starting with alcoholism.

If Psilera’s DMT can treat these mental health conditions equally as well as regular DMT, but without the intense hallucination, then PSIL-002 would probably be the better compound.

It is exciting to see Psilera’s scientists working on answering the following questions:

Can DMT treat depression?
Can psychedelics help with depression?
Can psychedelics help with Mental Health?

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