Tackling The Taboo: A Psychedelic Conversation With Amanda Feilding
Amanda Feilding will be among the speakers taking part in a very special panel discussion highlighting how the latest research on psychedelics is shattering the stigma around these extraordinary...
View ArticleThe Beckley Foundation at Psychedelic Science 2017
Amanda Feilding joined MAPS founder Rick Doblin in hosting the conference The Beckley Foundation’s Scientific Programme dominated the Friday afternoon session at Psychedelic Science 2017, with...
View ArticlePsilocybin is the World’s Safest Recreational Drug
Psilocybin was responsible for less emergency medical treatment than any other drug in the past year Humanity’s innate desire to explore consciousness has driven virtually every civilisation in...
View ArticleDo Psychedelics Make People More Environmentally Active?
Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock The social and environmental activism that made the 1960s such an iconic and influential decade sprang from an existential shift in consciousness. Movements emerged based...
View ArticleWhat Is The Ego, And How Do Psychedelics Shut It Down?
The conflicts, alliances and relationships that drive human history are all products of our capacity for self-awareness. Without the ability to recognise ourselves as bounded individuals with...
View ArticleHow Psychedelic Therapy Could Help Solve The Opioid Crisis
More Americans are currently dying from drug overdoses each year than died from AIDS at the peak of the epidemic. To be precise, there were over 60,000 overdose deaths in 2016, while roughly 43,000...
View ArticleWhy rescheduling LSD and psilocybin would transform research into treating...
The UK Psychedelic Society has just launched a petition to reschedule LSD and psilocybin from Schedule I to Schedule II, so this seems like a great opportunity to explain what this means and why this...
View ArticlePsychedelic Harm Reduction at Altered Conference 2017
There is a universal need for harm reduction when it comes to drugs and drug taking, and psychedelic substances are no exception. While they rank among the least risky when compared with other drugs,...
View ArticleNew evidence for a central role of music in psychedelic therapy
Music is considered an important component of psychedelic therapy for mood disorders and addiction, but little empirical research has been done to examine the nature of its therapeutic role. A new...
View ArticleWhy Science Needs Psychedelics: A Paradigm Shift for Psychiatry
In the UK, 1 in 4 people are affected by mental illness. 1 in 3 teenage girls suffer from an anxiety or depressive disorder, and suicide is the leading cause of death among the young. Nearly 50% of the...
View ArticlePsychedelics Promote Neural Plasticity
A new study from the University of California, Davis has found that psychedelic drugs such as LSD and DMT promote neural plasticity and development, indicating a potential mechanism for their...
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