Psychedelics in the UK: a thread 🧵
Did you know that the use of psychedelics is on the rise in the UK? According to a 2020 survey, 7.6% of UK adults reported using psychedelics in their lifetime. (Nichols et al., 2021)
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Interest in #psychedelic therapy is growing and has the potential to revolutionize mental health care in the UK - but it is not without ethical concerns
Ongoing Care:
Patients should have access to wrap-around treatments like therapy that are sustained to aid in the interpretation of such profound experiences.
These substances are not a magic pill.
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@therealbrom@BenjaminRamm The answer is interesting but also doesn’t matter. Even if turns out we are merely meat and chemicals (and we probably are) there will always be the pain from a cut and the laugh from a joke and the thrill of falling in love. Human feelings are going nowhere.
Transpersonal psychology provides a valuable framework for understanding and harnessing the therapeutic potential of psychedelic experiences, particularly regarding mental health treatment and personal growth.
It recognizes the holistic nature of healing and the profound experiences that psychedelics can offer, contributing to the responsible and effective use of these substances as medicine.
@DrRebeccaTidy@LancsPolice I understand the difficulty in feeling sympathy here but it isn’t the role of the police to do this publicly.
It feels very much like a childish game of cops and robbers. Police should hold themselves to a higher standard.
I did a thing this term where I told my students they were allowed to use ChatGPT. The catch was, they had to tell me about it in a reflection when they handed in their paper. This is a thread about how it all went.