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How Gen Z Is Rewriting the Rules of Sobriety
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Continue reading →: How Gen Z Is Rewriting the Rules of SobrietyFrom influencers to #sobertok, a new generation is finding community and support for alcohol use—and bucking once closely held beliefs about addiction.
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Continue reading →: The dark side of the Shroom BoomThey were promised psychedelic healing. They say it brought them more pain. for Business Insider Tim, a doctor in Atlanta, was reviewing new clinical research into psilocybin when he decided to try shrooms for himself. A hallucinogen derived from mushrooms, psilocybin was making its way through the drug approval process,…
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Continue reading →: An NYT Story Blamed Leftists for Obstructing Psychedelic Therapy. The Truth Is Much More Infuriating.Painting the FDA as easily corruptible may serve RFK Jr.’s agenda of eliminating oversight that keeps us all safe.
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Continue reading →: The ‘sober curious’ movement is about so much more than abstaining from alcoholAs a recovering alcoholic, I’m a little ashamed to admit that — until recently, — I found the hype around the “sober curious movement” a bit annoying. I had no qualms with the concept — which encourages low or no alcohol consumption as a lifestyle choice and has been adopted…
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The Intellectual Godparents of RFK Jr’s MAHA movement
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Continue reading →: The Intellectual Godparents of RFK Jr’s MAHA movementWe’ve got people who were spot on, folks who were well-meaning but misguided, and, of course, the downright dangerous. Because of how the piece is laid out, I can’t give you my usual snippet, but here is a link. Catch me in Part 2, but the whole package is great…
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This Book Helped Save the Planet—but Created a Very Harmful Myth
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Continue reading →: This Book Helped Save the Planet—but Created a Very Harmful MythSilent Spring led to sweeping, critical environmental reforms and awareness. It also, however, planted its own destructive seed: the notion that synthetic chemicals are inherently something to fear. Over the decades, that seed has grown into a wild and unruly tangle of misinformation and hysteria, amply pollinated by social media,…
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Continue reading →: No, the FDA Didn’t Reject MDMA Therapy Because of Big Pharma—It Was Because of Shoddy ScienceThe evidence points less to a wariness of psychedelics and more to too little experience with clinical trial standards.
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Continue reading →: The FDA Might Reject MDMA Therapy—but Not for the Reasons You ThinkWhat was supposed to be a groundbreaking step in mental health treatment became a devastating rebuke of a biopharmaceutical company at the forefront of researching MDMA-assisted therapy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Although many psychedelic-therapy advocates were disappointed by the decision, the move could actually prevent serious harm…
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Continue reading →: Psychedelic Hype Is Hurting More People Than We RealizeThe Daily Beast Just 48 hours before off-duty pilot Joseph Emerson attempted to cut the engines of a plane on its way to San Francisco from Everett, Washington, he had eaten magic mushrooms, according to a complaint filed by prosecutors. The airplane’s pilots and cabin crew restrained Emerson to prevent him from…
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Continue reading →: Why the CDC’s New Mask Guideline Proposal May Actually Imperil Frontline Workers“The decisions some of these public health people are making are not getting better. They’re getting worse.”
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