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BIDEN ADMINISTRATION PLANS FOR LEGAL PSYCHEDELIC THERAPIES WITHIN TWO YEARS
A letter from the Health and Human Services Department discloses the anticipated FDA approval of MDMA and psilocybin treatments. AS TWIN MENTAL HEALTH and drug misuse crises kill thousands of people per week, the potential of psychedelic-assisted therapies “must be...
New study looks at ‘magic’ mushrooms as treatment for depression, without the psychedelic high
A new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) will attempt to harness the antidepressant power of psilocybin mushrooms, but without the psychedelic experience. Psilocybin is the hallucinogenic chemical compound in "magic" mushrooms that generates a...
Microdoses of psychedelic mushrooms may improve mood and mental health
Microdosing refers to the practice of regularly using small amounts of psychedelic substances that do not impair cognitive function. Evidence from mostly small observational studies suggests that microdosing psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms,...
New CAMH study to look at whether ‘magic mushrooms’ can help treat depression without the high
Can the compound found in magic mushrooms help treat depression without making people high? That’s what researchers at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health will be endeavouring to find out. Today, the hospital announced it is the recipient of a first-ever...
Growing Mushrooms for Beginners
Magic mushrooms are easy to grow for those so inclined. The issue for many is either illegality, that they cannot grow in their living situation, or cannot obtain the starting materials needed, such as spores. If none of these things are a concern, then anyone can do...
‘They broke my mental shackles’: could magic mushrooms be the answer to depression?
"magic mushrooms" New trials have shown the drug psilocybin to be highly effective in treating depression, with Oakland the latest US city to in effect decriminalise it last week. Some researchers say it could become ‘indefensible’ to ignore the evidence – but how...
Psychedelic Treatment with Psilocybin Relieves Major Depression, Study Shows
In a small study of adults with major depression, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that two doses of the psychedelic substance psilocybin, given with supportive psychotherapy, produced rapid and large reductions in depressive symptoms, with most participants...
Magic Mushrooms As Medicine? Johns Hopkins Scientists Launch Center For Psychedelic Research. Say Psychedelics Could Treat Alzheimer’s, Depression And Addiction
Just a few decades ago, the approach would have been unfathomable to many. Using psychedelic drugs to treat people with PTSD? Depression? Addiction? To make them stop smoking? To perhaps treat Alzheimer’s? Wow. Just say no. Weren’t these the drugs we were told growing...
Mushrooms as Medicine? Psychedelics May Be Next Breakthrough Treatment
From treating depression to helping manage alcohol addiction, researchers say legal medical “magic mushrooms” have many potential benefits. Medical researchers are increasingly exploring the potential benefits of legal medical "magic mushrooms" as a breakthrough...