Can We Ease Depression, Addiction, and Mental Illness With Psychedelics?

Exploring alternative means of pain management and helping people die more peacefully

Jim Farina
4 min readJan 31, 2024
Photo by Kelvin Han on Unsplash

We all know somebody battling mental illness, addiction, or cancer. It might be you. Sadly, these are all part of life's experience, and we can't escape them. Or can we?

If you knew about a new miracle treatment that proves to fight depression, cure addiction, and make end-of-life transitions peaceful and painless, would you consider it? I would at least explore the evidence and science surrounding a revolutionary remedy.

What if the treatment was in the form of psychedelic drugs? Would that make a difference if the results proved positive? Most people seem to be willing to look into any alternative means of treatment if it leads to a remedy for relief of physical pain, mental anguish, or freedom from addiction.

Michael Pollan investigates this revolutionary treatment in his book How to Change Your Mind. Pollan personally experiments with these mind-expanding drugs himself, once considered dangerous, toxic, and a sure road to danger.

Whatever your position is on alternative medicine and psychedelic drugs, this book will have you rethinking some of those notions. Some preliminary…

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