Addiction: What Causes It?
Gabor Mate, MD, was trained as a family doctor but later turned his attention to helping heal addictions. The 9 minute video below is the most brilliant, succinct expose I know of concerning
Withdrawal from Prescribed Psychotopic Drugs
Drug withdrawal is an important topic today. This new book is an international collaboration that includes users, psychiatrists, researchers, and academics committed to helping people understand the potential harm that prescribed psychotropic drugs can cause
Precious Time
Some evenings at our little dinner table for two, my late husband, Bob Lehmberg, a palliative care and hospice physician, would say, “I told the patient and family, they were into Precious Time.” The emphasis
Possible Crises with Psychedelic Use
Challenging psychedelic crises cover a vast area The following manual excerpt is from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS, 2010), and just touches on challenging experiences. Jules Evans also adds his opinion. For a
Mental Health Education in Schools
Mental health education lessons are coming to the national curriculum [UK] next year [2020]. Teachers should be empowered to acknowledge that mental health is a contested area, argues psychologist and lecturer Anne Cooke. Ask students
Adverse Effects of Ayahuasca
Adverse Effects of Ayahuasca: Results from the Global Ayahuasca Survey Adverse Effects: About the study This study begins with a very long introduction that tries to explain ayahuasca not as a substance, but as
The Effects of Collective Trauma
The Effects of Collective Trauma Is our society sick? …[Gabor Mate, MD, writes in The Myth of Normal that normal mental health is a myth because our society is not healthy.] Has our society
Brain Scans Reveal Ayahuasca’s Impact
DMT Study gives most advanced picture yet of DMT compound’s effect on advanced functions such as imagination Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan of a brain shows regions of increased connectivity on DMT.
Quantum Entanglement and YOU
Quantum Entanglement and YOU Have you noticed that the recent Nobel for Physics was awarded for experiments that confirmed a phenomenon known as “Quantum Entanglement”? While the concept of quantum entanglement has been around for more
NEWS: On Voice Hearing
There are communities in which hearing voices frequently is common and expected, and in which participants are not expected to have a need for care. This paper compares the ideas and practices of these communities.