The making and taking of psychotropic drugs, whether on medical prescription or as self-
medication, whether marketed by pharmaceutical companies or clamoured for by an …

We are unlikely to stop seeking pleasure, as this would prejudice our health and well-being.
Yet many psychoactive substances providing pleasure are outlawed as illicit recreational …

This article reviews the attempts to understand the effects of psychedelic agents in human
beings. The influence of paradigms as cognitive structures that both define and limit …

Without researching psychedelic drugs for medical therapy, psychiatry is turning its back on
a group of compounds that could have great potential. Without the validation of the medical …

Abstract Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a famous dystopia, frequently called upon in
public discussions about new biotechnology. It is less well known that 30 years later Huxley …

Because the epidemic dispensing of psychiatric drugs is based on misinformation, it is
important for all health professionals, consumers, and most citizens (including patients and …

Given the plethora of new studies and published papers in the scientific press and the
increasingly emerging presence of articles about positive psychedelic experiences …

The revival of psychedelic research coincided and more recently conjoined with
psychopharmacological research on how drugs affect moral judgments and behaviors. This …

Addiction is increasingly described as a “chronic and relapsing brain disease”. The potential
impact of the brain disease model on the treatment of addiction or addicted individuals' …

An international ban on psychedelics initiated by the United Nations' Convention on
Psychotropic Substances in 1971 restricted the clinical use of these ancient psychoactive …