Psychedelic Medicine by Richard Louis Miller -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Image Title Page Epigraph Acknowledgments Table of Contents Introduction: What’s Happening in America?

A Call for Transparency What Determines Policy: Science or Ideology? A Call to Freedom

Chapter One: LSD: A Powerful Tool

A Brief History of LSD Leading the Way A Seminar for the Like-minded The Biochemistry of Changes in Consciousness Learning from the Past, Working in the Present How University Research Is Suppressed Unlocking the Secrets of Neuroscience The Mystery of a Mind-Changing Molecule The Quantum Change in Consciousness Artist, Researcher, Reformer LSD Brain-Imaging Studies LSD and Changes in Consciousness Psychedelics Shake Up Rigid Patterns United States’ Political Influence Birthing Brain Cells with Ayahuasca LSD’s Burst of Connectivity Not Addictive Medicines Voluntary Healing? Four Thousand Journeys Observations from 4,000 LSD Sessions A Package from Albert Hofmann to Stanislav Graf Transformation from Materialist to Mystic A New Worldview Observations from 4,000 LSD Sessions Neither Panacea nor Devil’s Drug Understanding Our Ecological Interconnectedness Caution Required A Psychedelic Explorer The Condensed Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide A Country of Hypocrites Putting Real Dangers in Perspective Forbidden Fruit and the Folly of Prohibition Six Variables for a Safe and Beneficial Psychedelic Session

Chapter Two: MDMA: Heart Medicine

A Cherubic Cheerleader for Psychedelic Research Drawing a Map from “X” to Rx The Long Road to the Pentagon Coming of Age in a Time of Change A New Tool for Self-Discovery The DEA Schedules MDMA How to Start a Psychedelic Pharmaceutical Company The Mission to Legalize MDMA as Prescription Medicine Overcoming the Global Suppression of Research MAPS: The Intersection of Politics, Science, and Psychedelics Two Phases Down, One More to Approval Maximizing Benefits and Minimizing Risks of MDMA-Assisted Therapy Evidence of Safety in Clinical Setting “Ecstasy” Off the Street Early Treatments: End-of-Life Suffering, PTSD, and Addiction Finding Common Ground with Psychedelics as well as Non-Drug Techniques Pioneering Government-Approved Research The MDMA Neurotoxicity Scandal Physiological Effects, Side Effects, and Complications The Power of the Placebo Initial Results Bode Well for Safety What’s Keeping MDMA Underground? Advice for Personal Experimentation Demonstrating MDMA’s Safety and Efficacy in Treating End-of-Life Anxiety Called to Help and Be Helped A Family Copes with Tragedy DEA Shuts the Lid on MDMA Research The Bay Area MDMA Study with End-of-Life Anxiety Nonclinical “Anecdata” Looking Critically at Risks MDMA’s Relation to Amphetamines Emergency Room Visits from MDMA Underworld Production of Synthetic Drugs Is MDMA a Sex Drug? Bottom Line: Get Educated A Husband and Wife Team for MDMA Research MDMA for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Overcoming Research Suppression Suppressed but Not Banned Hopeful Horizons Is MDMA Rightly Considered a Psychedelic? Overcoming Treatment-Resistant PTSD PTSD: The Nature of the Beast Striking Results: Emotions as a Map to Healing Climbing Down Ladders to Dark Feelings The Need for More Research into Trauma and Addiction

Chapter Three: Psilocybin

Breaking the Psychedelic Research Taboo A Groundbreaking Study Spiritual Psychopharmacology Psilocybin and the Primary Mystical Experience The Gold Standard: Double-Blind with Active Placebo Tough but Fair Trailblazing for Future Research Scientific Observation of Mystical Experiences More Real than Reality A Lasting Change Permanent Changes in Personality Defining Consciousness Expansion A Medicine, Not a Drug Fear and Trembling Taking Psilocybin Seriously: Medicine or Drug? Current Research for Cancer Insight Friday Night Meeting with Charlie Grob Seeking Solace for the Terminally ll Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Revives Psilocybin Research Study Results Published in a Mainstream Scientific Journal The Active Placebo The Future of Psilocybin Research Going Organic The Retreat Model of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Psilocybin and Depression When Nothing Else Has Worked No Need for Mushrooms More Effective with Fewer Doses Deep Healing

Chapter Four: Ayahuasca: Teacher Plant

Sharing Ideas with a Pioneering Researcher Hard Science in the Amazon Therapeutic Properties of Ayahuasca U.S. Supreme Court Rules Despite Impressive Results, No Research in the United States Bottom Line: Funding Needed An Immediate Connection with a Fellow Psychonaut Plants Meet People A North American in a South American Paradigm Vomiting: The Safeguard against Overdosing Mind-Body Medicine Not for Everyone Unregulated Mind-Body Medicine Abroad Cheerleader for Psychedelic Research The Science of the Sacred From the Amazon to the Laboratory What’s Driving the Popularity of Ayahuasca? Medicine or a Sacrament? DMT Know Before You Go

Chapter Five: Psychiatric Prescription Drugs: Tired Soldiers

A Drug-Induced Epidemic of Disabling Mental Illness Questioning the Psychiatric Paradigm The Schizophrenia Conundrum The Early History of Psychiatric Treatment Modern Drugs for Modern Times Long-Term Consequences of Antidepressants 2012: The Exercise Study Following the Money Lobotomy Nation Living Naturally with Julie Holland Resisting the “New Normal” of Overmedication How a Society on Drugs Can Return to Living Naturally Natural Movement for Natural Moods Medicating and Suppressing Natural Moods The Drug-Dependence Epidemic Leveled Emotions on Combination of Contraceptive and Antidepressant Tired Soldiers in the Long Battle with Psychiatric Illness Zoloft vs. Exercise A Universal Prescription for Stress

Epilogue: FDA Approval by 2021?

Is 2016 the Year of “Coming Out” for Past Psychedelic Users? An Optimistic Forecast A Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration Signs of Hope at the American Psychiatric Association Setting Modern Psychiatry Straight No Such Thing as a One-Dose Miracle Cure Challenging the Annuity Model Breaking through to Phase III Approval

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