Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert
LSD
How will psychiatrists administer psychedelic treatments?
This article has been written (within an American context) by Derek Beres and published on the Big Think website. It begins: “Psychedelic therapy is imminent. Within six years, the market for this new wave of therapeutics is predicted to reach nearly $7 billion . With advocates and…
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Psychedelic drugs should be legally reclassified so that researchers can investigate their therapeutic potential
The new science of psychedelics
Writing in The New Statesman , Tim Martin says: “Seventy-five years ago, in April 1943, the research chemist Albert Hofmann did something distinctly out of scientific character. Impelled by what he later called a “peculiar presentiment”, he resolved to take a second look…
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Written by Michael Pollan (May 2018), the full sub-title of this book is “What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence. The publishers say: “When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it…
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A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life
The publishers describe this book by Ayelet Waldman as: “The true story of how a renowned writer’s struggle with mood storms led her to try a remedy as drastic as it is forbidden: microdoses of LSD. Her revealing, fascinating journey…
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Ayahuasca, Psilocybin and LSD
The actual title of this paper is “Antidepressive, anxiolytic, and antiaddictive effects of ayahuasca, psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD): a systematic review of clinical trials published in the last 25 years” … but that was a bit too long…
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Will LSD ever be accepted as mainstream treatment?
The BBC has reported (April 2016) that: “Some researchers believe psychedelic drugs could be used to treat a whole range of conditions. But will cultural stigmas stand in the way? Mention LSD and you might think of the 1960s counterculture…
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