Mar 31, 2015
In hospice, we expect people are going to be dealing with their
mortality and that there will be suffering in this. Many people
find meaning in this struggle. Some simply suffer. We offer
anti-psychotic medications, benzodiazapines and anti-depressants
and we try all kinds of non-medicinal ways to address this.
And, we have a drug, still out of reach, that with just
one dose, has been shown to alleviate this suffering. Psilocybin, a
hallucinagen (still a Class 1 drug) is out of a person's system
quickly and the effect can be permanent and long lasting because
the healing happens within the experience from using the drug, not
from the drug itself. With a medication like valium for instance,
it is because the drug is in your system that you feel relief.
Psilocybin as a therapeutic treatment is different in this
regard.
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