Lecture 21 Psychedelic Drugs Part 2: Hallucinogens

I continue my discussion of psychedelic drugs, focusing LSD, psylocibin (magic mushrooms), PCP, and ketamine. I discuss the psychological properties and pharmacology of these drugs and then finish with a discussion of the emerging potential for using some psychedelics in treating PTSD and depression, including MDMA for PTSD, microdosing LSD and Psyclocibin and Depression. In a later lecture I will go into detail about ketamine and treating depression (stay tuned)

[williambaldwin]

I am taking a Pschology of Drug use and abuse with alcohol and this is wonderfull. Thank you for this video.

[Dude]

Some of this is bogus, nobody puts mushrooms on their pizza, bevause the ovens heat will degrade the sensitive tryptamine molecules. And it's also not a lipophilic compound it's soluble in water and ethanol. More stable in ethanol solution though.

In fact there is a procedure called "lemon-tek" where people soak the mushrooms in a tiny bit of lemon juice, to acidify and extract the psilocybin and psilocin as well as partially convert the psilocybin to psilocin, and causes a faster onset and overall more compressed pharmacokinetics.

Cooking with lipids is for THC!

I don't mean to barge in and start being professor over here, but this is my niche, and my BS meter went crazy. I don't blame you tho just your source. My sister got a minor in addiction and recovery studies at A&M and their curriculum had a lot of straight up misinformation that seemed straight out of the Reagan Era. I study pharmacology, so we often got into fights about things like thisb 😂

[aaronequinoa]

Does anyone else notice all the cut outs during these videos.

[MegaTeachmehow]

Could you do a video on HPPD? It's in the DSM 5. I got it from mdma, most people get it from lsd/mushrooms etc, It seems to be some kind of up/down regulation of d2/5ht2a receptors of some sort, and ssris usually make it worse.