Tag Archives: Psilocybin

Psychedelics and a Smartphone App Create Healing “Trips”

New Wavepaths app shows promise as a therapeutic tool
Posted on January 10, 2018 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds

Psychedelics — the “party drugs” that became part of the counterculture in the 1960s and have since been banned in the United States — are not part of what most of us consider mainstream medicine. In fact, all psychedelics, including … Continue reading →

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Psilocybin Study Promises Relief for Cancer-related Anxiety

Two small studies show the now-illegal hallucinogen provides long-term relief of psychological distress
Posted on December 9, 2016 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds

For people living with cancer, anxiety and depression are often a fact of life. Simply knowing that they have a potentially life-limiting disease is a difficult burden to bear. Then the side effects of treatment often leave them too sick … Continue reading →

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How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face the End-of-Life

Would you take magic mushrooms to ease end-of-life anxiety?
Posted on June 6, 2012 by Dana Sitar (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

A study conducted by psychiatrist Charles Grob, a researcher at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, administered psilocybin — an active component of psychedelic mushrooms — to cancer patients near the end-of-life to see if it could reduce their fear of death. The research, … Continue reading →

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