Posted by Jay2112 on March 7, 2022, at 13:04:38
In reply to Psilocybin Comparable to Escitalopram - Depression, posted by SLS on March 6, 2022, at 12:22:41
> Psilocybin Comparable to Escitalopram in the Treatment of Depression
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> "The FDA has designated psilocybin a Breakthrough Therapy for severe depression, which indicates that the therapy may be a substantial improvement over existing therapies for a serious condition. The designation is intended to speed up the drug development and review process."
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> - ScottWow! The FDA calling psilocybin a 'breakthrough therapy'....that should fast-track it right through the system and make it available asap, with just ut's safety having to be proven. Should be easy...but bureaucracy make's it not so likely.
Here in Canada, magic mushrooms are easily attainable, but the government has recently been giving people with terminal illness' are hard time over attaining them. Patients have to get their doctors to attain a special access for the mushrooms from Health Canada, under a Special Access program. The doctor then has to fill out nearly a book length worth of papers, basically finding one of the many startups that are experimenting with the drug, and then having to list, and explicitly explain 100's of clinical research trials that MUST have large amounts of participants, and of course favourable outcomes.
The problem is, most trials so far are fairly small, and don't exclusively deal with terminal illness anxiety and depression. So, having said, most doctors are obviously reluctant to take take on the 100's of hours of their research to get access to the psilocybin/magic mushrooms for a patient. It's, well, really stupid, since the government allows millions of other 'herbal' medicines, as long as they demonstrate safety. Even then..!! If I was in this position as a patient, I'd just order or buy from "illegal" sources. With mushrooms, I don't believe there is as near much of a worry of 'additive' substances like with many other illicit drugs.
Interestingly, here in Canada, numerous large cities, specifically Vancouver and Toronto, have sent formal requests to the Federal government to legalize ALL drugs, similar to what Portugal has done (and has had AMAZING success with combating drug use and deaths). One of the MOST important thing, and part of a myth about the 'overuse' of drugs, has little to do with actual drug use, and ALL to do with the purity, contents, and how the drugs are 'cut'. Most illegal dealers use large amounts of benzodiazepines in making heroin, for example, and that is a literal, killer combination, when it comes to suppression of breathing. Hence, that is what people are REALLY dying of. Cities now offer prescription heroin for that reason.
But, if I ended up with a terminal illness, you are damn right I am going to go out and buy mushrooms, available here in Canada on many websites...hell, they even advertise on Facebook!
Jay
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
-Don Miguel Ruiz-
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