News tagged with hallucinogenic
Controversial halluclinogen Salvia study shows intense, novel effects in humans
In what is believed to be the first controlled human study of the effects of salvinorin A, the active ingredient in Salvia divinorum, a controversial new hallucinogen featured widely on You Tube and other internet sites, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 10, 2010 |
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Hallucinogen can safely ease anxiety in advanced-stage cancer patients: study
In the first human study of its kind to be published in more than 35 years, researchers found psilocybin, an hallucinogen which occurs naturally in "magic mushrooms," can safely improve the moods of patients with advanced-stage ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 06, 2010 |
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Psychedelic trips aid anxiety treatments in study
(AP) -- The big white pill was brought to her in an earthenware chalice. She'd already held hands with her two therapists and expressed her wishes for what it would help her do.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 23, 2010 |
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Teen marijuana use tilts up, while some drugs decline in use
(PhysOrg.com) -- Marijuana use among American adolescents has increased gradually over the past two years (three years among 12th-graders) following years of declining use, according to the latest Monitoring the Future study, ...
Dec 14, 2009 |
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UC Davis Historian Catalogs U.S. Secrets, Lies and Conspiracies
(PhysOrg.com) -- The government's own secrets, lies and conspiracies have fueled a 45-year-long decline in America's trust in its leaders, a University of California, Davis, history professor argues in a new book.
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Psychoactive compound activates mysterious receptor
(PhysOrg.com) -- A hallucinogenic compound found in a plant indigenous to South America and used in shamanic rituals regulates a mysterious protein that is abundant throughout the body, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers ...
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Hallucinogen
This general group of pharmacological agents can be divided into three broad categories: psychedelics, dissociatives, and deliriants. These classes of psychoactive drugs have in common that they can cause subjective changes in perception, thought, emotion and consciousness. Unlike other psychoactive drugs, such as stimulants and opioids, these drugs do not merely amplify familiar states of mind, but rather induce experiences that are qualitatively different from those of ordinary consciousness. These experiences are often compared to non-ordinary forms of consciousness such as trance, meditation, and dreams.
Hollister's criteria for establishing that a drug is hallucinogenic is:
Not all drugs produce the same effect and even the same drug can produce different effects in the same individual on different occasions.
For more information about Hallucinogen, read the full article at
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