Successful Ibogaine treatments are all about getting the right provider because an intuitive provider will be able to properly assess the course and intensity of the administered medicine with you. A treatment best works if the Ibogaine provider understands the needs of the client and is attentive to all aspects of the client\’s journey.
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Festivals can be an amazing, life changing experience and to keep it on the positive side, we thought we’d review the fav 15 festival survival tips to make sure that not only will you survive any festival but you’ll thrive from it!
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During my usual perusing of various news items about drug addiction, psychedelics and healing, I realized I was translating what I was reading into what I know to be true. Otherwise known as reading between the lines. Having had the personal experience and years of research with the topics I write about, I’m able to decipher between what is being reported in the media and what is reality. And most times, they are at the opposite ends of the spectrum.
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Even though it’s still not clear exactly how these drugs work in the brain, researchers think that the psychedelic experience itself could help people change their perspective, and their behavior, when it comes to drug addiction. And these psychologists are keen to try something new, because, as they admit, the current options are limited for addiction treatment.
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Matthew Johnson, an associate professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and the lead author of the study, was interested in psilocybin because of the success researchers had in using LSD to treat alcoholics in the 1960s. He liked that psilocybin was shorter-acting than LSD and had less societal stigma. It also has few side effects or addictive properties of its own. Studies have already shown that hallucinogens might relieve everything from clinical depression to anxiety among cancer patients. Smoking, meanwhile, is relatively easy to study—not as deadly as, say, heroin and readily detectable with a urine test.
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This is the case to legalize psychedelics. Although the drugs have gotten some media attention in recent years for helping cancer patients deal with their fear of death and helping people quit smoking, there\’s also a similar potential boon for the non-medical, even recreational hallucinogenic user. As hallucinogens get a renewed look by researchers, they\’re finding that the substances may improve almost anyone\’s mood and quality of life — as long as they\’re taken in the right setting, typically a controlled environment.
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Opioid drugs can be powerfully effective treatments for those in pain, but they can also be extremely dangerous. This episode explores how opioids can lead to dependence, abuse and addiction, and the effects that opioid abuse have had in America. The episode explores how drug manufacturers, regulators, doctors, and patients have all contributed to the current crisis of opioid abuse.
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Robin Carhart-Harris has been conducting pioneering brain imaging studies of psychedelics for depression. Most recently, he has completed the first phase of a clinical trial looking at the potential of psilocybin to treat depression, and his talk looks at how these drugs can be used in treatment.
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Those new to working with psychedelic medicines often hope that just taking the substance will be enough to achieve good plant medicine integration. They fantasize that they will find a simple and magical solution to complicated issues in their life. And while this may happen once in a blue moon, it’s not the norm. Not by a long shot.
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The profound impact of LSD on the brain has been laid bare by the first modern scans of people high on the drug.
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Dr. Gabor Maté explains how addiction imprints itself on the brain and how ayahuasca can help release people from their destructive habits.