Posted on 05/17/2016 1:03:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
Psilocybin, which is found in magic mushrooms, was administered to depression patients in a pill Credit: TELEGRAPH
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A hallucinogenic chemical found in magic mushrooms has successfully lifted severe depression in previously untreatable patients.
Scientists at Imperial College London induced intense psychedelic trips in 12 people using high doses of the banned substance psilocybin.
A week after the experience all the volunteers were depression-free, and three months later five still had no symptoms of the condition.
Published in the Lancet Psychiatry Journal, the study welcomes the results as “promising, but not completely compelling".
Its authors are now seeking further funding from the Medical Research Council and other bodies to carry out fuller trials.
They conceded, however, that the use of a placebo control, a crucial component of thorough clinical trials, would be difficult as it would be obvious who was having a hallucinogenic experience and who was not.
The psilocybin is believed to cause relief from depression by targeting receptors in the brain and disrupting the Default Mode Network, which is responsible for sense of self and is overactive in depressed people.
However, the scientists did not rule out that the psychedelic trip could have caused an “awakening”, of the kind achieved by spiritual teaching, which also helped lift the depression.
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1972 USAF anti-drug training at Federal prison:
Real hardened “tough-guy” explained why not to get started on drugs.
“great high, but you can’t function and you can’t afford it. Soon you’ll be ripping off your Grandma, and soon be busted or dead”
5 years later: really hard-core biker struggling over a noon breakfast: “man, I’m done w shrooms, this just hurts too much”.
Great life lessons, along with watching bright people destroy their lives.
Oh My!
You’re as old as me!
It’s hard to be depressed when you’re amazed.
We all had lot's of fun, except for Dennis. He'd get very morose and withdrawn. Not sure why he kept doing them.
Definitely not a past-time for the unstable.
“Guess we all had that album back in the day. I’ve still got the vinyl but no turntable to play it on.”
I think I may still have ten percent of my old vinyl, including the first LP I ever bought, ‘The Emancipation of Hugh Masekela’.
I replaced most of my old favorite platters with CDs over the years, so I’ve got everything from Crosby, Stills, & Nash.
My wife found a nice record player for me last year, and I’ve spun a bunch of old records on it that I haven’t heard in ages. All kinds of fun, plus my 11 year old loves all that old music.
The War on Drugs is Big Government statism.
Yep.
Nothing like picking them in the early morning fog, before it lifts, so the neighbors don’t see.
Hypothetically of course.
Side effects?
Wow, good for you!!! Who knows what kind of impact we have on the people we encounter every day. Evidently you can be a blessing to bump into. :)
“Chemical Shock Treatment”
This is true and not 30 minutes ago I had a conversation with the relative of a person who had just undergone ECT. Ketamine is a similar chemical ECT.
Yep.
The essence of the experience.
The obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnP72uUt_pU
Well, that's great except for Bipolar vampires. We can't take the sunshine y'a know.
two problems
One, it was a small study.
Two, how did they define “depression”? As in unipolar despression or in bipolar despression, or as in psychomotor depression?
they did a lot of these studies in the 1960’s....and some were bad studies or fake. The LSD study on prisoners was espeically terrible: the doctors reported all sorts of sunny result (including commenting that this was a way to “reeducate” prisoners to be good citizens...duh). But outsiders later found half the stuff they claimed wasn’t true.
Soros has been pushing drug legalization for years. A drugged population is a happy population.
That young'n right there has good taste and an in-tune upbringing.
Congratulations! ;o)
D-3. For humans 10k units a day. Vampires probably a million units.
Just give my mushrooms and nobody gets hurt, okay?
/s
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