Hallucinogen use associated with later schizophrenia diagnosis: study
Patients who present to ED after hallucinogen use are 21 times more likely to develop schizophrenia spectrum disorder within three years compared with the general…
Tag: psychedelics
Scientists pinpoint psilocybin’s mind-altering effects using MRI
‘Magic mushrooms’ achieve their psychedelic effects by temporarily scrambling a brain network involved in introspective thinking like daydreaming and remembering, a new study reports. Brain…
‘Thousands still have disaster-related PTSD’: How this govt-funded psychedelic trial will work
The Northern Rivers region in NSW has faced disaster not once but twice in the past decade. Floods and landslides in 2017 and 2022 devastated…
Doctor teaching psychedelic therapy in Australia sacked over sex with vulnerable patient
Charity Mind Medicine Australia has sacked one of its psychedelic therapy trainers after the UK psychiatrist was suspended over a sexual relationship with a former…
Psychiatrist describes prescribing MDMA to first Australian patient
A Sydney psychiatrist has written Australia’s first MDMA prescription for a patient with PTSD, almost seven months after the TGA’s landmark decision to downschedule MDMA…
Psychedelic prescribing guidelines ‘virtually unworkable’
A new psychedelic practitioner group is calling on the TGA and the psychiatrists’ college to relax what it claims are “virtually unworkable” guidelines for MDMA and psilocybin prescribing. The TGA downscheduled…
Three cases of allegedly unlawful psychedelic therapy ads under investigation
The TGA is investigating three cases of allegedly unlawful MDMA and psilocybin advertising since the drugs were moved to S8 earlier this year. The…
TGA issues $1.3 million in fines over medicinal cannabis ads in a year
The TGA issued $1.3 million in fines for illegal medicinal cannabis advertising last financial year, with six different companies and one individual health practitioner coming…
Doctors offering psychedelic therapy should have prior experience and training, says psychiatry college
Psychiatrists planning to design psychedelic-assisted therapies when TGA rules change this week should have prior experience treating patients with MDMA or psylocibin, the college of…
