CBS News reports Psilocybin being used to treat depression

Drug use and abuse can begin with feelings of inadequacy, loneliness and not fitting in. These same emotions may also be synonymous with depression. On Thursday, February 9, 2012, CBS reported that the Imperial College in London has found a way to use psilocybin contained in mushrooms to treat depression.

Earthtimes.org reports that psilocybin affects the part of the brain that is considered to constrain our experience of the world and keep it orderly. Deactivating this region of the brain, as psilocybin is proven to do, leads the person to a state in which routine occurrences are experienced as strange. How would a person under this influence, control their body? The environment around them?

Mushrooms being a psychedelic drug, are subjective and the effects can vary considerably among individual users. As with many psychedelic substances, the effects typically last anywhere from 3 to 8 hours depending on dosage, preparation method, and personal metabolism.

The U. S. Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center, however considers psilocybin an illegal drug, classified as a Schedule I substance, along with heroin and LSD. They list the following negative effects on its user:

• intense feelings of fear
• headache, usually as effects wear off, sometimes beginning the next day, lasting for up to 24 hours
• nausea, gas, gastrointestinal discomfort, especially when dry mushrooms eaten raw
• mild to severe anxiety
• dizziness, confusion
• lightheadedness or fainting (in cases of lowered blood pressure)
• can precipitate or exacerbate latent or existing mental disorders
• working memory disruption (reduced ability to do tasks requiring current remembering and attention)

The Life Cycle and Mechanics of Addiction states, “once the person takes the drug, he feels relief from the discomfort. Even though the relief is only temporary, the drug is adopted as a solution to the problem and therefore, the individual places value on the drug.” Later, reports from the Imperial College in London will likely tout psilocybin as a miracle cure for depression!

The treatment of depression by the use of psilocybin, a narcotic, causes an already despondent person to suffer the ill effects of psychedelic drug use and possible abuse. Such exposure is a gamble at best and can only be considered a trial and error approach.

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