Friday, July 18, 2008

Psychedelic healing

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=psychedelic-healing
I found this article a few months ago and have read it a few times. I think it's great that researchers are being allowed access to this type of research. Psychedelics have been ignored for the past few decades and earlier research that showed they can have positive, healing effects on people for diseases which are currently labeled as "untreatable" (such as OCD, post traumatic stress syndrome, drug addiction, etc.) was thrown in a closet and ignored. Each study that has been performed in the past few years has had a great deal of success and this has influenced more scientists to perform research in this field, as well as given the government reason to allow them to continue their research. It must be kept in mind that the positive effects gained from the psychedelics was done in a controlled environment with pre-screened subjects who were deemed mentally healthy enough to endure the psychedelic experience. It is very easy for a trip to go wrong and this can be devastating on the individual. Hopefully research will continue and more positive aspects of psychedelic drugs will surface to help people with these diseases.

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