Ukraine Psychedelics therapy legalization

Ukraine has seen a soaring number of severe mental disorders amid its war with Russia. Can illegal substances like MDMA and psychedelic drugs help treat those who have post-traumatic stress?


That was expected. Your bets, how fast it will happen in Ukraine?🤔

Experts in Ukraine are appealing to parliament to facilitate the therapeutic use of these substances. Ksenia Voznitsyna, director of the Ukrainian Health Ministry's Center for Veterans' Mental Health and Rehabilitation, is a leading voice in the campaign. "We are driving these changes forward," she told DW

https://www.dw.com/en/should-ecstasy-mushrooms-be-legalized-to-treat-ptsd/a-67313910

Canada is always "lazy"😅

Now in Canada, who is next? Will be in the next post ;)


https://www.marijuanamoment.net/canadian-senators-call-for-immediate-launch-of-psychedelics-research-program-to-explore-treatments-for-military-veterans/

The month of Psychedelic policies 😅

EU have a pivotal moment towards Psychodelics use.


The ongoing revision of the pharmaceutical package in the European Parliament presents a unique opportunity for the realm of psychedelics,” Czech MEP Mikuláš Peksa said during a meeting organised by the action group for the Medical Use of Psychedelics, set up in May this year by seven MEPs to persuade fellow MEPs of the potential of psychedelics in mental healthcare and to advocate for their safe, regulated use.

Parliament’s public health committee is currently mulling the contested proposal for the largest reform to the EU’s pharmaceutical legislation in over 20 years.

https://sciencebusiness.net/news/life-sciences/meps-call-eu-support-research-use-psychedelic-drugs-treating-mental-health

Billionaire's PTSD story

Billionaire Bob Parsons, who founded GoDaddy and PXG Golf used a controversial and illegal drug and counseling therapy to cure the PTSD he suffered with since the Vietnam War.

Parsons thinks the therapy should be studied and used more widely. FOX 10's Troy Hayden sat down with Parsons to hear his story. This is an unedited portion of that interview.


https://www.fox10phoenix.com/video/1309629#

Psychedelics Therapy Bot

Tho of my biggest passions are AI and Psychedelics so it was the matter of time when i will drop this fun experiment.

This weekend I finally found some time to launch this Psychedelic Therapist GPT 😅

This chatbot can recommend you which therapy is for you based on your challenges and the way how you describe them.

Just let him know what bothering you and you will get the right Psychedelics for you. 🔥

Happy to hear your feedback and please share your results in the comments or DM 🙏

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-CARZLYsRJ-psychedelics-therapy

Zebrafish on DOI 🤯

Why?

According to Arinel, zebrafish are “very visual animals” that dedicate half of their brain to visual processing and how zebrafish convert visual stimuli into motor outputs.

What?

Researchers observed that zebrafish dosed with low concentrations of DOI showed much movement and exploratory behavior, even in dark conditions. 

How we can use it?

Arinel referred to when someone contacted her about his 14-year-old son who has akinetopsia, a condition which makes it difficult to perceive motion. 

Research from that son’s father showed “anecdotal evidence” that psychedelics could cause visual processing effects similar to the symptoms of akinetopsia. He connected with Arinel in hopes of looking into a possible relationship between the study’s findings and his son’s case. 

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2023/11/duke-university-larval-zebrafish-doi-lsd-drugs-psychedelics-naumann-lab

New Psychedelic Guides

Interesting discussion on 4 models of Psychodelics regulation:

The 1st is a decriminalised private use model, that includes small-scale home cultivation, foraging, and not-for-profit sharing - activities that, by their nature, exist largely beyond the realm of formal regulation

The 2nd model is membership-based not-for-profit associations for plant-based psychedelics - based on cannabis associations in Spain, Uruguay & Malta. These would provide access in a regulated, non-commercial environment emphasising community, peer support & harm reduction

The 3rd model is a more conventional regulated retail model, providing adult-only sales for personal use for a range of quality-controlled products (plant & synthetic) from specialist licensed vendors (physical & online stores).

The 4th model is for regulated commercial supervised use or guided psychedelic experiences. These would be overseen by trained and licensed practitioners to ensure safety and welfare of participants.

More details can be found in the article as well as in the 120+ pages book but it costs 💸

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/new-guide-on-how-to-regulate-psychedelics-lays-out-four-tiered-model-focused-specifically-on-nonmedical-use/

Maybe we don't need Psychedelics 🤯?


Breathwork is not a new technique but more and more people demonstrating an interest and progress in this space.

"The technique, as Ocean Eagle says, aims to activate the body on a cellular level, balancing oxygen and carbon dioxide levels "properly." This releases DMT in the brain, he claims, allowing participants to enter a psychedelic state naturally. "

While there is still a discussion if DMT can be released in the brain the breathwork can definitely bring DMT-like states.

"Breathwork helped me release 25 years of trauma that I was holding on to. I just didn't even know what hit me." Luhar said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/activation-breathwork-retreat-unlocks-psychedelic-state-naturally/

Eating disorder? Take Ketamine 😅

Psychedelic-assisted therapy for eating disorders is an even newer frontier—and one begging for solutions. Eating disorders have the second-highest mortality rate among all mental health disorders, and one in five anorexia deaths is a result of suicide.

P.S. I knew people who stopped eating sweets after MDMA ;)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-psychedelics-the-future-of-eating-disorder-treatment-180983278/

Jews and Psychedelics what can be better 😅

One more Psychedelics book released this year, actually just a month ago, please stooop, how can I find so much time to read them all 😅

"Exile & Ecstasy: Growing Up with Ram Dass & Coming of Age in the Jewish Psychedelic Underground" by journalist/editor Madison Margolin.


In this article Margolin discusses why she wrote the memoir and the challenges she faces promoting this book at a time when the Israel/Hamas war rages on and antisemitism escalates worldwide.

"Margolin: I most enjoy writing about fun and colorful scenes, such as Hasidic psytrance parties or ayahuasca circles in upstate New York and Brooklyn. As far as what was problematic, I found it hard to write about the ‘underground’ while keeping it underground"


https://www.forbes.com/sites/irisdorbian/2023/11/17/a-journalists-memoir-explores-jewish-spirituality-with-psychedelics/?sh=42f5824b4f8c

Dealers added Fentanyl to DMT 😢

Shiiiit there should be a special place in hell for such people.

“What we believe is they’re trying to get people that are in the market for a psychedelic drug hooked on fentanyl and meth because they’ll take it thinking they want the psychedelic high and when they’re done, they’re hooked on the other drug,” said Fornoff.


https://www.ketv.com/article/attorney-arrested-in-largest-omaha-hallucinogen-bust/45886209

ADHD + Microdosing = Mindfulness

New study on effects of Microdosing for ADHD people looks promising. 

Personally agree 😅

Point 1

"Participants completed various psychological assessments, including the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ-15) for mindfulness and the Big Five Inventory (BFI-10) for personality traits. "


Point 2

"After 2 and 4 weeks of microdosing, participants reported increased levels of mindfulness compared to baseline. Specifically, they showed improvements in facets such as observation, denoscription, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experience, 
and non-reactivity to inner experiences."

Point 3:

The bad thing is that there are participants with unpleasant experience, but wait, it means that Microdosing actually works ;) despite many attempts to call it placebo 😅

"But the study had some limitations, including a high dropout rate and potential bias due to participants who did not have a pleasant microdosing experience."


https://www.psypost.org/2023/11/microdosing-psychedelics-shows-promise-for-improving-mindfulness-in-adults-with-adhd-214715

Ukraine is moving to right direction 🔥

Well it's in the government level now, looks very promising.

“Today we have 13 trauma therapists who can work with psychedelic assisted therapy. … We need 300,” 

Quote 1:

“We have this catastrophic challenge ahead,” Dmytro Gurin, a Ukrainian MP in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Servant of the People party and member of the country’s health committee, told a meeting of MEPs at the European Parliament on Tuesday. “And such challenges, they need bold decisions.”

Quote 2:

"Gurin is pitching that Ukraine's large population of trauma sufferers means the country could become a research center for MDMA-assisted therapies. He'd like EU financial support for Ukraine to develop a nationwide clinical trial to test MDMA-assisted therapy as a first treatment for trauma, rather than as a last resort, as is normally recommended.


Quote 3:

His solution is to set up a training center in the safe city of Uzhhorod, which borders Slovakia. From here, he said, Ukrainian therapists can be trained for Ukrainian cases: understanding the tortures and traumas of war.

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-mp-dmytro-gurin-test-psychedelics-ptsd/