Posts Tagged ‘psychosis’
A New Form of LSD to Treat Schizophrenia
Working in his lab at the pharmaceutical company Sandoz in 1938, chemist Albert Hoffmann was investigating an alkaloid from the ergot fungus in search of a new drug that would act on the brain to stimulate respiration (an analeptic). Suddenly, all that changed when he was plunged into a mind-blowing psychedelic state after he accidentally…
Read MoreSmoking Pot as a Teen a Major Risk Factor for Schizophrenia
The scientific evidence linking cannabis use in adolescence to schizophrenia in adulthood is now so strong that the general public must be alerted. This was the pronouncement of researchers from Germany and England speaking October 9, 2017, at the World Psychiatric Association meeting in Berlin. “There is no doubt,” concludes Sir Robin Murray, Professor of…
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