Tag: mental health

    Psychedelics’ Exciting Potential to Benefit Autistic People

    [This article is published in collaboration with Narcotica, a podcast about drugs and the ...

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    Troy Farah

    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 ...

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    Kiran Sidhu

    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 ...

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    Alex Norcia

    Study Shows How Much Vapes Can Help Smokers With Schizophrenia

    A groundbreaking study from Italy with adults who have schizophrenia spectrum disorders found that ...

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    Helen Redmond

    How Will Oregon Implement Legal Psilocybin Therapy?

    Oregon has begun a two-year process to implement its Psilocybin Services Act, making the ...

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    Alexander Lekhtman

    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 ...

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    Alexander Lekhtman

    Pandemic Hits Harm Reduction Workers Hard—Particularly “Peers”

    A few weeks back, Soma Snakeoil, an artist and the founder of Los Angeles-based ...

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    Doug Johnson

    Blueberries, Xanny Bars, Clazzys: My Anxiety-Driven Benzo Journey

    I have been doing Valium since the age of 16. They were called “blueberries” ...

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    Matthew Bonn

    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 ...

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    Stanton Peele

    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 ...

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    Elizabeth Brico