Psychopharmacology and Recovery Part 7 of 13

Empathy, Altruism, and Learning: What psychopharmacology can learn from 12 Step Recovery – Part VII – Understanding Why 12 Step Recovery Works. Dr. David Sack, of Promises Treatment Centers talks about helping addicts with a combination of medication and therapy.

TinyUrl.com – subscribe to the MAPS.org podcast and learn more about scientific and medical research being done on various psychedelics in order to find medical uses for these long-stigmatized entheogens. THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF PSYCHEDELICS Produced on December 11, 2002 Christopher Wiegand, MD Quote from www.psychedelic-library.org In the mid-1960s, legislation in the United States instituted a prohibition on the use of psychedelic drugs, not only the supposedly alarming use by hippies, intellectuals, beatniks, college students, etc., but also use by scientific researchers and mental health professionals. The ban on practically all research and therapy was soon forced upon the rest of the world by international treaties and also, no doubt, by covert pressure from the CIA and other US government agencies. LSD and the other psychedelic drugs were classed as “Schedule 1” substances, supposedly having no medical value or recognized uses. Yet a significant body of scientific literature of the time indicated quite clearly that psychedelic drugs most certainly did have valuable uses in both therapy and pure research. Work that had been going on for more than a decade in Canada, for instance, had shown LSD psychotherapy to be the most effective treatment for alcoholism ever devised. Other studies had begun to show similar effectiveness for treatment of addictions, personality disorders, and a whole range of conditions.
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