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
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