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SCIENTISTS......would psychedelics benefit those people who suffer from serious mental illness?

Michael.Felli

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There are numerous studies that people who suffer from mental illness show "no links between reported psychedelic drug use and negative mental health effects."

Now, have their ever been studies done showing that people who suffer from serious mental illness actually BENEFIT from prescribed psychedelics?

It has been shown that people who regularly use psychedelics have "Pantheist-like" connections with their surroundings. Would it not, then, be worth it to do a comprehensive study to see if psychedelics would benefit people suffering from serious mental illnesses. Take, for example, the most recent mass killings in Oregon and the VT massacre. Could prescribed psychedelics have benefitted those two individuals and significantly decreased the chances of those two people doing what they did?

I would think that such a study may produce suprising results. I would be very interested in doing a literature review on the subject. I would, also, think that funding would be readily available since this is such an American issue, at the present time.

Thoughts???

http://www.the-scientist.com/?artic...dies--Psychedelics-Not-Bad-for-Mental-Health/

http://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/psychedelics-and-the-religious-experience
 
There are numerous studies that people who suffer from mental illness show "no links between reported psychedelic drug use and negative mental health effects."

Now, have their ever been studies done showing that people who suffer from serious mental illness actually BENEFIT from prescribed psychedelics?

It has been shown that people who regularly use psychedelics have "Pantheist-like" connections with their surroundings. Would it not, then, be worth it to do a comprehensive study to see if psychedelics would benefit people suffering from serious mental illnesses. Take, for example, the most recent mass killings in Oregon and the VT massacre. Could prescribed psychedelics have benefitted those two individuals and significantly decreased the chances of those two people doing what they did?

I would think that such a study may produce suprising results. I would be very interested in doing a literature review on the subject. I would, also, think that funding would be readily available since this is such an American issue, at the present time.

Thoughts???

http://www.the-scientist.com/?artic...dies--Psychedelics-Not-Bad-for-Mental-Health/

http://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/psychedelics-and-the-religious-experience
Yeah, I agree completely. There are a couple of different institutes that have received government support to carry out research on MDMA including one at John's Hopkins. Both institutes are working with people (mainly soldiers) suffering form PTSD, and also people who are terminally ill cancer patients (I think that's the focus at John's Hopkins). Psilocybin will probably be the next to get funding. There was research done in 1995 on DMT and that will probably also become available for more research. LSD is still the most demonized of all the drugs even though DMT is stronger, so research on LSD will probably become that last of the group to receive government support. It can all be very helpful if done correctly and in the right conditions and circumstances. Much of these drugs (minus MDMA which is the least powerful of the psychactive drugs and relatively new) where part of a ton of research in the 50's-70's, including LSD that was used regularly in psychotherapy. But alas, pyschoactive drugs were soon demonized in the 70's. All the new possibilities for research is quite a positive development.
 
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