Tag: mental health
Groundbreaking PTSD Trial Moves MDMA Closer to Medical Approval
On May 3, MDMA—the psychedelic drug colloquially known as Molly or ecstasy—moved one step ...
Study Shows How Much Vapes Can Help Smokers With Schizophrenia
A groundbreaking study from Italy with adults who have schizophrenia spectrum disorders found that ...
How Will Oregon Implement Legal Psilocybin Therapy?
Oregon has begun a two-year process to implement its Psilocybin Services Act, making the ...
Why Didn’t Rochester’s New Mental Health Crisis Team Prevent Latest Police Brutality?
An incident of police brutality in Rochester, New York, calls into question reforms the ...
Pandemic Hits Harm Reduction Workers Hard—Particularly “Peers”
A few weeks back, Soma Snakeoil, an artist and the founder of Los Angeles-based ...
Blueberries, Xanny Bars, Clazzys: My Anxiety-Driven Benzo Journey
I have been doing Valium since the age of 16. They were called “blueberries” ...
Reason to Raise a Glass: The Alcohol-Zero-Tolerance Project Is Doomed
The World Health Organization has declared that there is no safe level of drinking—a ...
Forced, Rapid Adoptions Are a Weapon of the Drug War
“I hate myself.” The words slipped out of my youngest child’s mouth with a ...
NYC’s New Non-Police Mental Health Crisis Response Still Resembles Policing
New York City receives 200,000 mental health-related 911 calls each year. In addition to ...
A Hugely Promising Study of Psilocybin Treatment for Depression
The first-ever randomized clinical trial of psilocybin-assisted therapy for people with a diagnosis of ...
