Recovery Resource: Psychedelics in Recovery
Psychedelics in Recovery (PIR), an addiction recovery mutual aid group where members use psychedelic substances as part of their recovery journeys. Often translated as ‘mind-manifesting’, the careful use of psychedelics can produce remarkably lucid experiences, offering insights ranging from the sensory-perceptual and the biographical to the spiritual and the mystical.
The neuroscience of trauma
Your brain keeps the score
Psychedelics promote plasticity by directly binding to BDNF receptor TrkB
Recent clinical studies suggesting that psychedelics produce rapid and long-lasting antidepressant effects2 have received tremendous attention. Mystical experiences induced by psychedelics have been associated with their clinical efficacy
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Did you ever grow anything in the garden of YOUR mind?
Adjunctive music improves the tolerability of intravenous ketamine for bipolar depression
Intravenous ketamine is an effective treatment of bipolar depression.
Canadian woman wanted assisted suicide for depression. Then ketamine saved her
To our knowledge, this is the first report of ketamine or any other intervention yielding remission in a patient who would have otherwise likely been eligible for MAiD for depression. We discuss implications for the evaluation of similar requests and, more specifically, why a trial of ketamine warrants consideration.