Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus Erika Dyck

Psychedelic and nonpsychedelic LSD and psilocybin for cluster headache.

Simos and colleagues reported that Ontario surgeons and oncologists don’t follow guidelines when ordering imaging in women with early-stage breast cancer.1 The paper joins tens, if not hundreds, of similar articles describing the failure of practising physicians to follow guidelines. Over the last two decades, repeated attempts have been made to “transfer” or “translate” knowledge to practising...

Psychiatry & the psychedelic drugs. Past, present & future

The classical psychedelic drugs, including psilocybin, lysergic acid diethylamide and mescaline, were used extensively in psychiatry before they were placed in Schedule I of the UN Convention on Drugs in 1967. Experimentation and clinical trials undertaken prior to legal sanction suggest that they are not helpful for those with established psychotic disorders and should be avoided in those liab...

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LSD before Leary. Sidney Cohen's critique of 1950s psychedelic drug research.

In 1962 Sidney Cohen presented the medical community with its first warning about the dangers of the drug LSD. LSD had arrived in the United States in 1949 and was originally perceived as a psychotomimetic capable of producing a model psychosis. But in the mid 1950s intellectuals in Southern California redefined LSD as a psychedelic capable of producing mystical enlightenment. Though LSD was an...

Client Adherence to Discharge Recommendations from a Campus Occupational Therapy Student Clinic

Eighteen adults with chronic medical conditions who participated in a university occupational therapy clinic were surveyed about adherence to home program discharge recommendations. Adherence rates for discharge recommendations that were occupation-based or purposeful activities were compared to preparatory activities, including rote exercise. Reported adherence rates were not statistically dif...