A feature article in The Independent profiles a Norwegian married couple and their goal of providing access to quality psychedelics. Clinical psychologist Pål-Ørjan Johansen and his wife Teri Kreb, a research fellow in the Department of Neuroscience at the Norway University of Science and Technology, aim to...
The Purdue Exponent, the daily student newspaper of Purdue University, has a feature article on the work of David Nichols, the co-founder and President of the Heffter Research Institute. Staff writer Danielle Wilkinson covers Dr. Nichols’ research on the psychedelic chemicals MDMA (“Ecstasy”) and LSD. “’We...
The OPEN Foundation, a Dutch organization that supports psychedelic research, published the second part of a special issue in the journal Current Drug Abuse Reviews. Three new articles focus on the use of psychedelics for treating addiction, including an article on the Heffter-supported study on...
On March 6th, the New York Open Center will host a showing of the documentary film A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin. Along with the film, the event features a panel discussion with Heffter researchers Stephen Ross, Jeffrey Guss, and Anthony Bossis. A New Understanding:...
Most contemporary research on psychedelic drugs focuses on the treatment of psychological disorders such as depression and PTSD. Now, researchers at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine are investigating the use of the psychedelic (R)-DOI to treat asthma, a disease that affects 25 million...
The New Yorker magazine has a brief but powerful documentary video illustrating their recent article on psychedelic research. The video features cinematographer Eddie Marritz, one of the subjects in the Heffter-sponsored study on psilocybin therapy for cancer patients at New York University.Magic Mushrooms and the...
In an interview on the website of the Open Foundation, Heffter researcher Matthew Johnson discusses many topics in the field of psychedelic science. Dr. Johnson talks with writer Olivier Taymans about his study on psilocybin as a treatment for tobacco addiction, the timeline for legalization...
An opinion piece in the popular news magazine THE WEEK encourages government funding of scientific research into psychedelics. National correspondent Brian Cooper examines how pharmaceutical companies fund research on new drugs using two examples–psychedelics and antibiotics. In both cases, the industry has financial incentives for avoiding research. The...
As a sign of growing public awareness and acceptance of psychedelic research, The New Yorker, possibly the nation’s most prestigious general-interest magazine, features an extensive article on the subject in its issue of February 9th, 2015. Author Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) focuses on the...
The study at the University of Alabama on psychedelics and suicide, cited in the previous post, is getting a lot of attention in the media. Newsweek covered the story in their issue of January 25, 2015. “A new study conducted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham...
