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Psychiatry professor believes that psilocybin has potential to reset the behaviours and cognitions of those with eating disorders by changing neural pathways.

Magic mushrooms’ for eating disorders? Drug company running trials at B.C. university

Dr. C. Laird Birmingham, Psychiatry professor with expertise in eating disorders, believes that psilocybin has potential to reset the behaviours and cognitions of those with eating disorders by changing neural pathways. NeonMind Biosciences Inc. is working with Dr. Birmingham at the University of British Columbia in preclinical trials to determine if psilocybin could be used to change the unconscious response to emotional situations that can trigger food-related addictions.

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A world-renowned addictions specialist claims that psychedelics have “potential to be the equivalent of a cure for cancer in the mental health space”

Documentary explores use of psychedelic drugs for mental health issues

In a new documentary, VeraCity: The Psychedelic Frontier, a world-renowned addictions specialist claimed that psychedelics have “potential to be the equivalent of a cure for cancer in the mental health space”. The documentary explores Canada’s leading research on psilocybin and follows a Toronto war hero’s journey to heal his mind from PTSD using a psychedelic plant called Iboga.

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Can psychedelics bring out trauma from the unconscious mind?

What psychedelics taught me about healing trauma

The psychedelic treatment revolution is shifting the model of psychiatry away from daily medication for mental health treatment, according to psychiatrist Dr. Craig Heacock. Heacock believes that mental health issues like depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD “are more often than not tied to a deep, and largely untouchable, river of trauma that lies beneath our reach in the unconscious mind”. Psilocybin therapy is proving to be an effective treatment option because it brings deeply repressed trauma to the surface so that patients can “begin to rework and reframe their experience without fear”.

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Johns Hopkins study found that psilocybin is more effective at treating nicotine addiction than the leading drug, with 80% quitting after single dose

More Than A Trip: Psychedelic Drugs Being Used To Help People Quit Smoking In Just One Dose

A study at Johns Hopkins Behavioral Biology Research Center found that 80% of participants were able to quit smoking for at least six months after taking one dose of psilocybin, including one participant who was a heavy smoker for over 25 years. This suggests that psilocybin therapy is over twice as effective as the leading smoking cessation drug, varenicline, which has a 35% success rate after six months. Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu explains that psilocybin is effective for treating addiction because it changes the way the brain makes connections, which can “interrupt old patterns, well-worn neuro pathways, or habits.”

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