Psychedelics Headlines: A Form Of Life, Treating Chronic Pain, Microdosing And More

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Welcome to Benzinga’s psychedelic headlines roundup. This is our pick of must-read news items from the last two weeks of March 2024.

See previous edition Psychedelics Headlines: Substitution Survey, Frank Herbert’s Magic Mushrooms, Celestial Plans And News Review

Research

  • Psychedelic Therapy as a Form of Life (original read,)
  • Scoping Review: The Role of Psychedelics in the Management of Chronic Pain (original read.)
  • Improvements in well-being following naturalistic psychedelic use and underlying mechanisms of change in older adults: A prospective cohort study (original read.)
  • Effects of discontinuation of serotonergic antidepressants prior to psilocybin therapy versus escitalopram for major depression (original read.)
  • Exploring the discourses around microdosing psychedelics within the r/microdosing online community (original read.)
  • UK medical students’ self-reported knowledge and harm assessment of psychedelics and their application in clinical research: a cross-sectional study (original read.)
  • Cultural Divergence in Psychedelic Use among Medical Students: An ESPAD-Adapted Survey among Poles and Iraqis (original read.)
  • Structure-activity relationships of serotonergic 5-MeO-DMT derivatives: insights into psychoactive and thermoregulatory properties (original read.)
  • Safety pharmacology of acute psilocybin administration in healthy participants (original read.)
  • First Proof that Psilacetin is a Prodrug of Psilocin, coverage by Psychedelic Science Review.

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  • "The Psychedelic Evangelist," on belated, respected field researcher Dr. Roland Griffiths by The New York Times (read.)
  • "The FDA Backdoor to MDMA Rescheduling," by Vincent Joralemon for Harvard's Petrie Flom Center (read.)
  • "‘Get on Your Knees' -Alberta Cops Raid Home Over Ayahuasca Delivery," by Mattha Busby for Filtermag (read.)
  • "Cops Demand Access to Psychedelic Assisted Treatment at the United Nations," by Drogriporter (read.)
  • "RFK Jr’s maloca of mystical politics" (read) and "Five reservations about psychedelic therapy," by researcher Jules Evans (read.)
  • "Through the Psychedelic Looking Glass," by Winston Ross for New Lines mag (read.)
  • "Psychedelic Theodicy – Denying Psychedelics' Potential for Harm," By Sam Woolfe for The Chemical Collective (read.)
  • Cognitive impairment, dementia, Alzheimer's and psychedelics: 5 Questions for researcher Albert Garcia-Romeu by The Microdose (read.)
  • Spiritual Health Practitioners Bring ‘Unique, And Uniquely Valuable' Expertise To Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Study Says – by Marijuana Moment (read.)
  • "The Teachings of the Chacruna Plant," by DoubleBlind (read.)
  • "The Importance of Ethnobiology:  Ayahuasca Sustainability, Biognosis, and a Balanced Coexistence between Humanity and Nature," by Michael Coe for the McKenna Academy (read.)
  • BBC's "People Fixing the World" podcast episode on magic mushrooms and mental health (listen.)
  • Psychedelics Today's new podcast episode: "Reflections from Shulgin Farm: Psychedelics, Legacy, and the Spirit of Discovery" (listen.)
  • Prof. David Nutt discussed the roadblocks and breakthroughs in psychedelic therapy at Mind Body Health & Politics podcast (listen.)
  • New Stanford survey aims to understand more about people's exposure to media related to psychedelics (participate.)

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