Altered States
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Psychedelics are now at the center of a global conversation about mental health, mysticism, and even how we experience illness and death. In Altered States, host Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores how people are taking these drugs, who has access to them, how they're regulated, who stands to profit, and what these substances might offer us as individuals and as a society.
UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
Psychedelics are now at the center of a global conversation about mental health, mysticism, and even how we experience illness and death. In Altered States, host Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores how people are taking these drugs, who has access to them, how they're regulated, who stands to profit, and what these substances might offer us as individuals and as a society.
UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
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The legal tribulations of Provo’s newest mushroom church
New research on notoriously hard to treat eating disorders
A Lakota journalist investigates efforts to save a disappearing cactus
What can twitching mice reveal about the human brain?
A story of traumatic brain injury and a 24-hour trip.
How did a psychedelic religion founded to promote peace end up spreading right-wing political propaganda?
On the road with Indigenous leaders from the Amazon
An investigation into near-death experiences
What music should accompany a trip?
What happens when religious clergy take magic mushrooms?
Psychedelic science, religion, and everything in between.
A story of traumatic brain injury and a 24-hour trip.
A big saga, a small cactus.
A cautionary tale of k-holes, pharmaceuticals, party drugs and friends
Will voters pass state ballot measures to legalize psychedelics like they did for cannabis?
What happens when a New York Times reporter takes ayahuasca in the Amazon?
The story of one man’s journey from the jungles of Gabon to the NBA to the business of ibogaine.
What happens when the effects of a psychedelic experience won’t fully go away?
A story of intergenerational trauma and a psychedelic brew
Big news in the world of psychedelics
Can a psychedelic drug be a medicine? The federal government will soon decide.
A report from the first state in the country to allow people to take mushrooms legally.
A podcast about what science can tell us about psychedelics–and what psychedelics can tell us about ourselves.