Whoah! Take me back to my youth!
Marijuana isn't the only street drug doctors are using to treat ailing patients—a growing movement in the medical world is embracing hallucinogens as a treatment for depression. The drug psilocybin, a key ingredient in the recreational drug known as "magic mushrooms," and other mind-bending drugs fell out of favor with regulators in the 1960s, but doctors believe modern culture is ready to take another look at their medicinal value. Here, a quick guide to the 21st-century push for therapeutic psychedelics:
Which problems do psychoactive drugs treat?
Depression tops the list. But researchers have begun testing the drugs' effects on other mental problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, end-of-life anxiety, drug and alcohol addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder in soldiers.
http://theweek.com/article/index/201851/Medicinal_magic_mushrooms_The_new_Prozac#
I think I'm feeling my OCD & PTSD stirring up, again!
Which problems do psychoactive drugs treat?
Depression tops the list. But researchers have begun testing the drugs' effects on other mental problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, end-of-life anxiety, drug and alcohol addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder in soldiers.
http://theweek.com/article/index/201851/Medicinal_magic_mushrooms_The_new_Prozac#
I think I'm feeling my OCD & PTSD stirring up, again!
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