Depression „ausgeknipst“: So funktioniert die Therapie mit Halluzinogenen – was (Es-)ketamin und Psilocybin können und was nicht Neuere Studien mit Halluzinogenen haben die Hoffnung auf eine effektive medikamentöse Therapie chronischer Depressionen…

USA. They Call It 'Tranq' -- and It's Making Street Drugs Even More Dangerous Approaching a van that distributes supplies for safer drug use in Greenfield, Massachusetts, a man named Kyle noticed an alert about xylazine. "Xylazine?" he asked, soun…

What Ketamine and Psilocybin Can and Cannot Do in Depression Recent studies with hallucinogens have raised hopes for an effective drug-based therapy to treat chronic depression. At the German Congress of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, To…

USA. The NIDA-funded National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS), Coordinating Center at UF  The National Drug Early Warning System (NDEWS), funded to the University of Florida by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), provides the field…

Xylazine (CCENDU Drug Alert)  Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, 2022 Summarizes the increased risk of accidental overdose due to xylazine in Canada’s unregulated drug supply. Xylazine is a non-opioid pain reliever developed as a…

Abuse of tropicamide eye drops: review of clinical data.  Bellman V, Ukolova A, Erovichenkova E, Lam S, Srivastava HK, Bruce J, Burgess DM.  Braz J Psychiatry. 2022 Jun 21. doi: 10.47626/1516-4446-2021-2446. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35…