Psychoactive substances are subject to law control, imposed through the system of medical prescription or legal prohibition, with penalties for their unauthorized use. The consumption drugs in a non-medical contexts is often labelled as "drug abuse", and substance used this way “narcotic” - term endowed illegality (Goodman et al. 2017). While legal, popular discourses attempt establish distinct...

Psychedelic substances are undergoing a renaissance. As they have been out-of-bounds for public research half century, the development process has driven by drug user communities. With prospect of legalization psychedelics, data collected users about toxicity, dosage, etc. turned into billion-dollar assets. Know-how stemming from stigmatized communities is being transferred to companies and put...

This paper aims to present conceptual metaphors employed discuss psychedelics in texts published online by organizations popularizing knowledge about psychedelic substances. The foundation of this investigation comprises Cognitive Grammar, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Corpus Linguistics. A corpus 160 on medical research, mental health, therapy 2020 is built enable quantitative qualitative an...

After a 40-year hiatus there is now a revisiting of psychedelic drug therapy throughout psychiatry, with studies examining the drugs psilocybin, ketamine, ibogaine and ayahuasca in the treatment of drug dependence. Limitations to these therapies are both clinical and legal, but the possibility of improving outcomes for patients with substance dependency imposes an obligation to research this area.