Psychedelics, Psychosis, and Risk Reduction

Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

Craig Heacock MD

Psychiatry, Bipolar, Suicide, Depression, Ketamine, Psychotherapy, Science, Psychedelics, Health & Fitness, Addiction, Medicine, Psychology, Mental Health

4.8 • 452 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This is a talk that Dr. H gave in Denver at the Nowak Society in Aug. 2022. Medicalization and/or legalization of psilocybin is likely coming to Colorado soon, with other psychedelics soon to follow. This will foster both a new era of psychiatric treatments and psychospiritual exploration, as well as a significant increase in adverse psychiatric events, including psychotic breaks. Dr. H explores the various classes of psychedelics (cannabinoids, tryptamines, phenethylamines, ketamine, e.g.) a...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Back from the Abyss. I'm Dr. Craig Hecock.
0:16.8	This is a talk I gave it the Noax Society in Denver last month.
0:25.5	And I was planning to record it there and get it live and put it on the podcast.
0:29.2	But for a number of reasons, I decided to record it later.
0:31.2	One was because it was so loud.
0:34.5	There was a band playing upstairs and pounding through the floors.
0:37.4	And the acoustics were bad.
0:39.1	And it was so hot.
0:42.2	I was pacing the stage with this sure microphone,
0:44.5	like some crazed stand-up comic doing this talk.
0:46.5	And I thought, this is not ideal to record.
0:50.7	So this will contain essentially the same information from that talk,
0:53.4	maybe presented in a little calmer fashion. So I know a number of people at the talk
0:56.2	were hoping that I would put this on the podcast because there's a lot of information here.
1:01.2	The question and answers, I don't know, went on for 45 minutes maybe at the Mercury Cafe in
1:06.7	Denver and so many good questions. So any of you listening, if you have thoughts or questions on this talk,
1:14.0	just reach me through my website, Craighecockm.d.com. So this is psychedelics, psychosis, and risk reduction.
1:26.4	So my interest in psychedelics and psychosis goes way back, and I would date it back to
1:33.3	age 18, 19, during my freshman year of college.
1:37.3	I think it was October, 1985, 10 of us.
1:42.3	We took sandwiches, I think there were peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
1:46.0	We took those from the cafeteria, brought them back to our dorm, and we stuffed dried
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