#Bestof2022: Brave New World of hallucinogens as remedy for the brain. Natasha Loder, Economist. (Originally posted October 6,, 2022)
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#Bestof2022: Brave New World of hallucinogens as remedy for the brain. Natasha Loder, Economist. (Originally posted October 6,, 2022)
https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2022/09/21/ketamine-psilocybin-and-ecstasy-are-coming-to-the-medicine-cabinet
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| 0:37.8 | Illusionogenics, my childhood included hallucinogenics, especially the famous LSD being celebrated |
| 0:45.8 | in rock festivals, notably at the Woodstock Festival. However, all these decades later, |
| 0:52.4 | I learned from Natasha Loder, the health policy editor of the economist. |
| 0:57.7 | What I understood to be hallucinogenics are part of a large library now, of investigations of |
| 1:05.5 | the applications of psychedelic or psychotherapeutic drugs and manufacturing of these events |
| 1:17.6 | in order to cure or at least disrupt depression, addiction, PTSD, and anxiety. |
| 1:26.2 | Natasha, a very good evening to you. Thank you very much for this. First, I see the mission |
| 1:31.8 | in front of us, and I go immediately to something I didn't know until you revealed it in your article. |
| 1:37.2 | The FDA has already approved something along these lines called ketamine. What is its intention? |
| 1:44.0 | Good evening to you. Hello. The intention of ketamine, or esketamine, |
| 1:49.7 | better known as bravato, is to relieve treatment resistant depression. What that means is |
| 1:56.7 | depression that has been treated by a whole bunch of other things, including SSRIs and you failed, |
| 2:03.2 | and your resistant treatment. You can now have this inhaled form of ketamine, which is given |
| 2:09.3 | under supervision, which is intended to provide some relief from the depression, and indeed does so. |
| 2:17.7 | Relief, not cure relief. That's important to make this distinction, because we now want to look |
| 2:23.9 | very carefully at what might be true of all these substances. I'll name them, but they're very |
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