Tag: mental health
How I Quit Heroin and Why That Hasn’t Fixed My Life
There exists a common misconception that if a person uses illicit drugs, all of ...
English Councils Improve Smoking Cessation Work Despite Funding Cuts
A survey published by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and Cancer Research UK ...
Alcohol and Dementia: Why the Evidence Has Been Suppressed
A familiar substance has repeatedly been associated with protection against dementia. But we’re not ...
Canada Allows Three Mental Health Patients to Access Psilocybin Therapy
Canada’s top health agency has agreed to allow an additional three people to use ...
New Orleans Result Could Increase Reformers’ Focus on Sheriff Elections
Since 2015, both Big Philanthropy funders and progressive grassroots activists have targeted local district ...
People Changed the Ways They Use Drugs During the Pandemic
The 2021 Global Drug Survey (GDS), the newly published report from the largest annual ...
Warn That Alcohol Causes Cancer? Add That Drinkers Live Longer.
“There is no safe level of alcohol,” WHO Europe headlined in 2018. “Zero alcohol ...
In Canada, End-of-Life Therapy May Be the Path to Legal Psilocybin
In August 2020, 53-year-old Thomas Hartle became the first Canadian to legally undergo psilocybin-assisted ...
Psychedelics’ Exciting Potential to Benefit Autistic People
[This article is published in collaboration with Narcotica, a podcast about drugs and the ...
There Was Nothing “Wasted” About My Youth Spent Clubbing on Ecstasy
Some of us who spent a lot of time using drugs in our youth ...
