Hallucinogens and redemption Marlene Dobkin de Rios, Charles S Grob, John R Baker Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2002, 34, 3, 239-248. Abstract : This article examines drug substitution with regard to hallucinogens (ayahuasca, ibogaine, peyote and LSD) set within the concept of redemption. The model examines both religious and secular approaches to the contemporary use of hallucinogens in drug substitution, both by scientists and in religious setting worlwide. The redemptive model posits that the proper use of one psychoactive substance within a spiritual or clinical context helpsto free an individual from the adverse effects of their addiction to another substance and thus restores them [...]
Lire la suiteSerotonergic hallucinogens in the treatment of anxiety and depression in patients suffering from a life-threatening disease : A systematic review Simon Reiche, Leo Hermle, Stefan Gutwinskic Henrik Jungaberle, Peter Gasser, Tomislav Majić Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 2018, 81, 1–10 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2017.09.012 A B S T R A C T Anxiety and depression are some of the most common psychiatric symptoms of patients suffering with lifethreatening diseases, often associated with a low quality of life and a poor overall prognosis. 5-HT2A-receptor agonists (serotonergic hallucinogens, ‘psychedelics’) like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin were first investigated as therapeutic agents in the 1960s. Recently, after a long [...]
Lire la suiteToujours plus avec la chimie psychédélique par Thibault Henneton Manière de Voir (Le Monde Diplomatique), 2019, 163, Fruits d’une inventivité chimique sans limites, les nouveaux produits de synthèse (NPS) se sont multipliés ces dix dernières années, notamment dans les milieux festifs alternatifs. Moins chers que la cocaïne, ils restent difficiles à cerner tant pour les autorités que pour les usagers, incapables d’en connaître à l’avance les effets véritables, dont certains mènent aux hôpitaux, désarmés pour les traiter. Akatre ///// « Djeff », 2018 Placés récemment sous les projecteurs, les nouveaux produits de synthèse (NPS) inonderaient le marché des stupéfiants. Dans son dernier rapport annuel, l’Observatoire français des [...]
Lire la suiteEfficacy and Enlightenment: LSD Psychotherapy and the Drug Amendments of 1962 Matthew ORAM Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2012, Volume 69, Number 2, 221-250. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrs050 ABSTRACT. The decline in therapeutic research with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in the United States over the course of the 1960s has commonly been attributed to the growing controversy surrounding its recreational use. However, research difficulties played an equal role in LSD psychotherapy’s demise, as they frustrated researchers’ efforts to clearly establish the efficacy of treatment. Once the Kefauver Harris Drug Amendments of 1962 introduced the requirement that proof of efficacy be established through controlled clinical [...]
Lire la suiteLSD before Leary - Sidney Cohen' s Critique of 1950s Psychedelic Drug Research Steven J. Novak Isis, 1997, Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 87-110. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28199703%2988%3A1%3C87%3ALBLSCC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W ABSTRACT In 1962 Sidney Cohen presented the medical community with its first warning about the dangers of the drug LSD. LSD had arrived in the United States in 1949 and was originally perceived as a psychoto-mimetic capable of producing a model psychosis. But in the mid 1950s intellectuals in Southern California redefined LSD as a psychedelic capable of producing mystical enlightenment. Though LSD was an investigational drug, authorized only for experimental use, by the late 1950s psychiatrists and psychologists were [...]
Lire la suitehttp://psychedelic-library.org/lsdmenu.htm Alas! the forbidden fruits were eaten, And thereby the warm life of reason congealed. A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam, Like as the Dragon's tail dulls the brightness of the moon. — Rumi: Masnavi I Ma'navi Introductory Papers The Exploration of Experience by: Humphrey Osmond, an excerpt from his 1957 paper "A Review of the Clinical Effects of Psychotomimetic Agents" Psychedelics, Technology, Psychedelics by: Bernard Aaronson and Humphry Osmond, the introductory chapter to PSYCHEDELICS, the Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs Psychedelics and the Future by Humphry Osmond and Bernard S. Aaronson Request for a Public Hearing to: The Hearing Clerk, Department of Health, Education and Welfare Menus Psychotherapy and Psychedelic Drugs Psychedelic Research [...]
Lire la suiteThe Secret of the Kykeon Peter Webster The Psychedelic Library The original hypothesis of The Road to Eleusis suggests that the ergot species Claviceps purpurea, collected by the hierophantic priests from its natural and common parasitisation on barley growing in the Rarian plain adjacent to Eleusis, was the probable active ingredient of the kykeon, the psychoactive potion used in the yearly Rite at Eleusis. It was further suggested that the hierophants would have processed the C. purpurea ergot by dissolving off the water-soluble alkaloids since this fraction contained ergonovine, the principal hypothesised psychoactive compound, a lysergic acid amide very similar in structure to, [...]
Lire la suiteThe LSD Therapy Career of Jan Bastiaans, M.D. Stephen Snelders Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, MAPS : 1998, Vol 8, N° 1, pp. 18-20 JAN BASTIAANS WAS 23 YEARS OLD and a medical student at the University of Amsterdam when the German army invaded the Netherlands. The German occupation (1940-1945) had a lasting influence on his life and work. The first aim of Bastiaans' use of LSD and psilocybin in psychotherapy was to help victims of World War II: the survivors of the war who had become extremely traumatized by their experiences in the German and Japanese prisons and concentration [...]
Lire la suiteThe Bastiaans Method of Drug-Assisted Therapy A preliminary follow-up study with former clients Hans Ossebaard & Nicole Maalste Bulletin of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, MAPS : 1999, Vol 9, N° 2, pp. 3-9 This study was made possible in part by a grant to MAPS from the Promind Foundation The present pilot study is a preliminary investigation among former clients who participated in therapy supervised by Bastiaans and his collaborators (see MAPS Bulletin, VIII (2), p. 3; 1998) and conducted with the help of hallucinogenic drugs. This follow-up study aims to systematically establish the subjective judgements of clients, to work out a profile that [...]
Lire la suiteNeurotoxicity and LSD treatment : a follow-up study of 151 patients in Denmark Jens Knud Larsen University Hospital of Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark History of Psychiatry, 2016, Vol. 27, (2), 172–189 DOI: 10.1177/0957154X16629902 Abstract LSD was introduced in psychiatry in the 1950s. Between 1960 and 1973, nearly 400 patients were treated with LSD in Denmark. By 1964, one homicide, two suicides and four suicide attempts had been reported. In 1986 the Danish LSD Damages Law was passed after complaints by only one patient. According to the Law, all 154 applicants received financial compensation for LSD-inflicted harm. The Danish State Archives has preserved the case material of 151 [...]
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