Citizen drug historian. Studying the history of clinical psychedelics in minors. https://xitter.cf/t.co/I71k6DpW0k Ex-artist and dad. (he/him)
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๐ข Introducing PsyChild โ a grassroots database for clinical research with psychedelics and related compounds in minors.๐๏ธPsyChild offers structured info on hundreds of records including dusty archival material and current clinical study reports. ๐๏ธ
๐ ruehr.org/shiny/PsyChild/
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Happy to share my article for the Harvard Petrie-Flom Center's Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype online symposium.
"Let Go and Surrender: Considerations on MDMA Couples Therapy and Coercive Control" (CW: domestic violence, sexual abuse)
blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.โฆ
New domain/link: psychild.info/
PsyChild has a new domain: psychild.info/
Also major update: archival records and ongoing/discontinued studies are now listed separately.
๐ New Year, new domain! ๐
From now on, #PsyChild will be available on its own domain!
The PsyChild database has been compiled and updated by @ChewingGinger and the site was programmed by me. Check it out at psychild.info!
#DataScience #rstats #psychedelics #database
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Children mostly accept the reality with which they're presented, which is why society's push to normalise for them the medicalisation/pathologisation of their suffering (erasing social, relational, spiritual, humanistic perspectives), is the opposite of preparing them for life.
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We would rather be doing so many other things with our time than pointing out bad behavior & preventable harms. I got into the psychedelics field because I wanted to study trip reports; but I learned there were shady things happening that needed to be talked about, unfortunately.
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On the psychedelic guide industrial complex.
From what I've seen, most psychedelic harms are interpersonal โ exacerbated by power imbalances w/ strangers claiming spiritual authority. Guides can't be described as necessary to harm reduction when they're often the source of harm.
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Thank you @ChewingGinger for this incredible database on the experiments of psychotropic drugs on children, very usefull for historians!
@zoe_dubus was so kind to provide a very early record of an experiment with psychedelics (LSD) in 2 children (France, 1959) to the PsyChild database. The document, held in a small archive in France, is in very poor condition. But according to @zoe_dubus, some passages
@zoe_dubus was so kind to provide a very early record of an experiment with psychedelics (LSD) in 2 children (France, 1959) to the PsyChild database. The document, held in a small archive in France, is in very poor condition. But according to @zoe_dubus, some passages
concerning the the self-experiments of the doctors may have been deliberately destroyed.
The adjunct psychotherapy is cited as "shock therapy". It is noteworthy that one of the two teenage subjects "escaped" from the hospital while the other is reported as being "reluctant".
The source is available under: ruehr.org/shiny/PsyChild/
So far, there are 7 records of clinical use of psychedelics in minors from the 1950s available in the database.
Please support our datase by sharing any relevant references that you might come across.
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Not all therapists who touch patients will abuse them, but almost all therapists who sexually abuse patients will have touched them in seemingly 'harmless' ways before, eroding boundaries and building trust.
Quote below from patient/victim of Ingrasci
newspapers.com/article/the-bโฆ
I've tried to compile a comprehensive bibliography of study reports which specifically address pediatric emergence delirium (PED) resulting from Ketamine (and Ketofol, Ketodex) use for anesthesia: ruehr.org/shiny/PsyChild/
However, ketamine is considered a safe anaesthetic for newborns older than 3 months and itโs widely used as it provides unique advantages for this population.
rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guiโฆ
The first (field) ketamine study dates back to 1970, but there are studies being published to this day discussing how to better manage symptoms of PED. Attached above is an image of the recovery room from Spoerelโs (1970) field study, conducted with mostly indigenous children.
Seems extra arbeitary when considering that TR-PTSD is more often than not defined as one failed psychotherapeutical and one failed pharmacological intervention. Also the reason why I still assign TRD study entries in the PsyChild database as MDD (which seems vague enough).
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The experience of @SashaSisko demonstrated that those listed were more than nominally #Wonderbanned. Check it out ๐
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The claim that "there are currently 120 studies of ketamine treatments for mental illness in [adolescent] population" is tmk very, very false. It's hard to keep track, but ruehr.org/shiny/PsyChild/ lists less than 15 ongoing trials with this indication in this population.
In this episode of the psychedelic medicine podcast, Dr. @johnedwardsmd joins to discuss the potential of ketamine treatments for mental health conditions in adolescent populations. bit.ly/ketamine4adolescents
Yet another piece on MDMA-AT for adolescents. While I find it odd that information on MDMA-AT was provided by showing a TED talk, thereโs some interesting concerns expressed by the adolescent focus group. One referring to the therapy setup:
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"Psychedelic Public Relations, Media, and Marketing Strategy, Science Education, Public Speaking". The talk seems pretty hypie to me, and not very balanced (regarding risks/harms ect vs. benefits).