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Can Psychedelic Experiences Cure Alcohol Addiction?

By Mark Travers — 2019

A new study hints at a novel and promising treatment for alcohol use disorder.

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Psychedelic Therapy and Racial Trauma: Offering Clients a Deeper Experience of Healing

Like most people of color in the United States, psychotherapist and researcher Monnica Williams has experienced myriad forms of racism. Early in her career, understanding its effects on her mind and body motivated her to help clients address their own racial trauma in therapy.

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Chris Lyford
2021
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How Researchers and Advocates of Color Are Forging Their Own Paths in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

We’re seeing an explosion of medical research into psychedelics. Psilocybin, or shrooms, to treat major depressive disorder. Ayahuasca, a psychotropic plant medicine from the Amazon, and ibogaine, a potent hallucinogen from Africa, to treat addiction. LSD for anxiety.

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Steph Yin
2020
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Study Finds Ketamine Can Help Patients Manage Depression and PTSD

Through this treatment plan, the patient was able to “reconceptualize her trauma” and “was able to move through difficult memories and emotions rather than letting them consume her,” explained U of O associate professor, Monnica Williams.

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Hannah Sabourin
2021
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Psychedelics Shown to Ease the Effects of Racial Trauma

A recent study found that even a single positive psychedelic experience may ease mental health symptoms associated with racial trauma experienced by Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC).

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Kristi Pahr
2021
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‘Taking in All the Pain of What They Witness’

Addiction, whether to drugs or other behaviors . . . is always a compensation for the sense of being devalued as a human being.

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Gabor Maté, Danny Glover
2015
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Dr. Gabor Maté on Donald Trump, Traumaphobia, and Compassion: An Interview

What if we replaced the word "addict" with: “A human being who suffered so much that he or she finds in drugs or some other behavior a temporary escape from that suffering"?

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John Lavitt
2017
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Dr. Gabor Maté on the Trauma Underlying the Stigma of Addiction: An Interview

There are legitimate uses of opioids in the treatment of physical pain. There is no legitimate use in the treatment of emotional pain.

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John Lavitt
2017
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