Psychedelic and Plant Medicine Therapists, Practitioners, Providers

Bill killed May 16th https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-lawmakers-kill-psychedelics-legalization-220852017.html

Psychedelic medicines have been studied as an adjunct to psychotherapy for over 100 years.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14433382

“ Discussion: This work adds to the growing body of evidence that under the supervision of a pain specialist, oral ketamine therapy may be a safe, tolerable and effective treatment for chronic pain conditions which have not responded to other management options. Further research is required to produce a more accurate understanding of its chronic use.

Key message: This real-world study shows that patients being treated with oral ketamine for chronic pain report decreased severity of pain, improved mood and increased quality of life across all conditions.”

Note- this study included patients taking ketamine by mouth for up to 12 years.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14411345

This paper presents a valuable investigation of the acute effects of ketamine in healthy volunteers using rating scale-based behavioral and resting-state fMRI-based neural measures. It provides solid evidence of inter-individual variability in responses to ketamine along with associations to relevant gene expression markers (somatostatin, parvalbumin) in the brain. >