ravage
July 11, 2006, 3:58pm
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Opium for the masses its been called. Maybe in the future people in need for answers to life and deeper meaning can just be prescribed some magic mushroom.
Two months after getting the drug, 79 percent of the volunteers said they felt a moderately or greatly increased well-being or life satisfaction, according to the report published in the journal Psychopharmacology.
“Discovering how these mystical and altered consciousness states arise in the brain could have major therapeutic possibilities,” said Griffiths.
These include “treatment of intolerable pain, treatment of refractory depression, amelioration of the pain and suffering of the terminally ill,” he added.
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Former National Institute on Drug Abuse director Dr. Charles Schuster praised the study and said such drugs may some day be used to treat addictions.
Dr. Solomon Snyder, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins who says he has experimented with LSD himself, said the experiment might lead to a way to find the “locus of religion” and the biological basis of consciousness in the brain.
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