Psychedelics, psychiatric meds, and the question of tapering
Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories | Psychotherapy, Trauma, and PsychedelicsShow Notes
One of the more interesting and difficult challenges of integrating psychedelics into psychiatry is how to deal with the fact that so many of the folks who will seek out care for their treatment-resistant depression or OCD or body dysmorphia or PTSD or attachment trauma are on psychiatric meds, many of which can have very significant and even dangerous interactions with certain psychedelics. Here Dr. H explores some of the key issues around med tapering with ketamine, psilocybin, and MDMA, i...
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