In the first week of November, Oregon legalized psilocybin (you can read more about this [here] and [here]) **and** [a new study about psilocybin therapy] was published in [JAMA Psychiatry]. Exciting times! Continue reading Psilocybin for Depression? A promise for a new treatment paradigm?
Advanced metastatic cancer is a serious, life-threatening illness. No one doubts that. Severe addiction is also often lethal (in 2017, more than 70K people died from drug overdoses, 2/3rds involving opioids1), but it clearly does not get the same attention as cancer care does, for a lot of diverse reasons ranging from stigma and lack of appropriate funding, to systemic issues related to how care, … Continue reading Treating Addiction as a life threatening Illness:
Marcin Chwistek, MD 