How LSD and shrooms could help treat anxiety, addiction and depression

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Your Brain on Drugs – Hydrocodone (College Health Guru)

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How LSD and shrooms could help treat anxiety, addiction and depression

It was the most peaceful, joyous, incredible, life changing experience I've ever had in my life. There were scary parts, foreboding parts … I always knew there was beautiful and joy and peace on the other side of it. It was freeing, it was really freeing. This is Alana. She’s describing what she felt after she took a dose of this stuff — psilocybin. It’s a naturally occurring psychedelic compound, the kind you find in magic mushrooms. But she wasn’t tripping in a dorm room or at Woodstock — it actually wasn’t recreational at all. If anything became unreal or I was feeling nervous or not in touch with reality, I would squeeze his hand and he would squeeze mine back just to reassure me that I was okay and everything was alright. It was part of a controlled medical test to see if psychedelics could be useful in helping people quit cigarettes. Alana had been smoking for 37 years before her session with psilocybin, and she hasn’t had a cigarette since. Research on psychedelics for medical use is preliminary. Most studies suffer from really small sample sizes.

That’s partly because the federal government lists LSD and psilocybin as Schedule 1 drugs. So researchers face extra red tape, and funding is really hard to come by. Vox writer German Lopez reviewed dozens of studies that have been done. He found that psychedelics show promise for treating addiction, OCD, anxiety, and in some cases, depression. One small study of 15 smokers found that 80 percent were able to abstain from smoking for six months after a psilocybin treatment. In a pilot study of 12 advanced cancer patients suffering from end-of-life anxiety, participants who took psilocybin generally showed lower scores on a test of depression. And smaller study suggested psilocybin treatment could also help people with alcohol dependence cut back on their drinking days.

We don’t have all the answers as to what exactly these treatments are doing in the brain. But they seem to work by providing a meaningful, even mystical experience that leads to lasting changes in a patient's life. The issues that I talked about, or thought about, or went into during my experience were transformative in the sense that I got to look at them through a different lens. I know this sounds weird, I feel like I have more connections in my brain that I couldn't access before That feeling that Alana is describing is actually pretty spot-on. When you take LSD your brain looks something like this. You can actually see a higher degree of connectivity between various parts of the brain, it’s not limited to the visual cortex.

This communication inside the brain helps explain visual hallucinations — and the researchers argue that it could also explain why psychedelics can help people overcome serious mental issues. They wrote that you can think of psychiatric disorders as the brain being “entrenched in pathology.” Harmful patterns become automated and hard to change, and that’s what can make things like anxiety, addiction and depression very hard to treat. That’s Albert Garcia-Romeu, he’s a Johns Hopkins researcher who worked on studies of of psilocybin and smoking addiction, like the one that Alana's involved with. He says that when participants take psychedelics, One of the big remaining questions here is how long these benefits actually last after just the one-time treatment. A review of research on LSD-assisted psychotherapy and alcoholism found no statistically significant benefits after 12 months. And a recent study on psilocybin and depression found that benefits significantly dropped off after three months. And of course are some big risks to using psychedelic drugs. It’s hard to predict a patient’s reaction and some might actually endanger themselves.

Those predisposed to psychotic conditions are especially at risk for having a traumatic experience while on the drug. It’s difficult to draw solid conclusions from the existing studies. But there’s more than enough promise here to merit further research and further funding for that research. As Matthew Johnson of Johns Hopkins said, "These are among the most debilitating and costly disorders known to humankind.” For some people, no existing treatments help. But psychedelics might. One thing you might still be wondering is why so much of this research is so new, when we've known when we've known about psychedelics for thousands of years. Well since these drugs are so old, they can't be patented, which means that pharmaceutical companies don't really have any incentive to fund any research into them.

So that really leaves it up to governments and private contributors to fund all these studies. And there actually was a lot of research done into these drugs in the 50s and 60s, but there was a big enough backlash to the abuse of psychedelics in that period, especially around events like Woodstock, that funding really dried up, and research stopped. And that's why it's only now that we see this research happening, with private, not government contributions..

Anger, Anxiety, Depression Make the Connection -Counselor Toolbox Podcast with Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes

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Medication Assisted Therapy for Addiction | Counselor Toolbox Episode 113

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What is Mental Health? How to solve the current epidemic | State Of Mind Podcast Episode #1

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Let’s Disrupt Ageism in Health Care

If you or a loved one is struggling with addiction and seeking help, please call 757-566-7332Williamsburg Place Lecture Series The Farley Center and The Pavilion host monthly professional workshops for area providers. These cutting edge presentations feature information on addiction, ethics, dual diagnosis, co-dependency, military and addiction, eating disorders, assessment, and process disorders. Workshops are held on the 4th Friday of each month from 9:00 am -11:00 am on the campus of Williamsburg Place.Presentation ObjectivesAs a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:Understand the tripartite model of ageism, including: Cognitive dimension (stereotyping) Affective dimension (attitudes and prejudices) Behavioral dimension (discrimination)Define ageism in its various forms, including: Explicit and implicit bias Internalized and externalized ageism Positive and negative biasRecognize our ethical obligation to prevent the harms of ageism in healthcare practice, including: Overtreatment of older adults Therapeutic nihilism toward older adults Infantilization of older adultsIdentify ways to practice healthcare with the intention of providing age neutral-services. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Jenny Inker teaches and conducts research in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Allied Health Professions Department of Gerontology. Her research interests include elderhood and disrupting ageism in healthcare and long-term care. A gerontologist, licensed assisted living facility administrator, and experienced leader in senior living and affordable housing environments, Jenny holds an MS in strategic management and housing from the University of Wales (Cardiff), an MBA from George Washington University, and a masters in gerontology from Virginia Commonwealth University. She expects to receive her PhD in gerontology from the VCU School of Allied Health in 2018.Lets #DisruptAgeism in health careIf you would like to attend a lecture or learn more please visit our websiteIf you enjoyed this lecture subscribe to our channel for more!