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The loss of $68 million in federal funding, plus more potential cuts, is threatening Texas' system for distributing opioid ...

Addiction often isn’t about chasing pleasure—it’s about escaping pain. Researchers at Scripps Research have discovered that a ...

The narcotic first drew widespread attention in B.C. in the late 1990s, when a cheap yet potent strain known as China White ...

Penn researchers found that psilocybin can calm brain circuits tied to pain and mood, easing both physical suffering and emotional distress in animal studies. The compound works in the anterior ...

The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT), a region that regulates stress and emotion.

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania shows that psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, can ease ...

Researchers at Penn Medicine have identified specific brain circuits that are impacted by psilocybin—the active compound ...

Twenty years after Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert’s new book All The Way To The River, shares how love, grief, and ...