Sentences with phrase «including psychedelic drugs»

The patients in the study were given a number of bizarre treatments, including psychedelic drugs such as LSD and participating in naked encounter groups, in an effort to break down their defenses.

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Other charities that have benefited from the organization include healthcare outsourcing platform Watsi; The Water Project; the Electronic Frontier Foundation digital - rights activism group; MAPS, an organization that studies therapeutic uses of psychedelic drugs and marijuana; the medical nonprofit SENS Research Foundation; and charity: water.

Coined in 1956 from the Greek root for «mind revealing,» the term psychedelic refers to a broad range of drugs that includes peyote, LSD, and psilocybin, the primary active ingredient in so - called magic mushrooms.

They also included, in the mid-1900s, the powerful psychedelic compound lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, that is still being studied and has been widely used as an illegal recreational drug.

For their part, Carhart - Harris and his team are keen to study other types of psychedelic drugs, including dimethyltryptamine (DMT), sometimes found in a traditional South American brew called ayahuasca.

Psychedelic drugs are unique among other psychoactive chemicals in that users often describe «expanded consciousness,» including enhanced associations, vivid imagination and dream - like states.

Coined in 1956 from the Greek roots for «mind revealing,» the term psychedelic refers to a broad range of drugs that include peyote, LSD, and psilocybin, the primary active ingredient in so - called magic mushrooms.

And, according to Elsie, she saw Ryan «repeatedly abusing a panoply of legal and illegal drugs, including without limitation: cocaine, ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, and steroids... Phillippe increasingly combined these drugs with excessive alcohol consumption and often exhibited symptoms attendant of poly drug and alcohol abuse, including mood swings and bouts of anger.»

In the recent interview «Better Living Through Chemistry: Fred Tomaselli's Psychedelic Art» for The Artery, the artist explains that it has been years since he's included drugs in his work, but his themes of utopian notions nevertheless prevail.