First Pharmaceutical Treatment for PTSD Within Reach

[RainDog]

32. The Drug Policy forum, here

has some links to the uses of various psychotropics for different issues.

Nat'l Geo had a program about people who use different substances. Ibogaine detox is part of an underground system of addicts helping addicts to kick the habit.

One middle-class guy in Texas who uses mushrooms once every two months or so to treat his cluster headaches. He's about as far from the stereotypical shroomer as they come. That he is doing something illegal really bothers him - but the relief from cluster headaches makes him break the law. Cluster headaches are also called "suicide headaches" because the pain is supposed to be some of the most intense going that doesn't actually kill you - tho some people are driven to suicide to stop the pain.

How much more humane to, instead, allow someone to spend a day at their house, every two months, treating themselves.

Pharma research in the past, don't know about now, was looking into ways to isolate the components that would provide this relief without the hallucinogenic effects.

Why are we, as a culture, so averse to medicine that alters consciousness, briefly, if the outcomes are so positive?

You have to wonder what it says about our culture that we fear medicine that defies proscribed states of being, even temporarily. It's Puritanism, imo, that makes our culture so punitive.

I'm sure indigenous cultures could weigh in on that issue...