ISSN 0279-1072, 2159-9777
415 papers in the library · 13,118 citations · publishing 1976-2026
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs December 1, 1998 Ralph Metzner 6 citations
(1998). Reflections on the Concord Prison Project and the Follow-up Study. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 30, Therapeutic Ue of Hallucinogens, pp. 427-428.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs October 1, 1998
Human nature and the nature of reality: conceptual challenges from consciousness research.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1998 M Mangini 107 citations
Following Albert Hofmann's discovery of LSD's psychoactive properties in 1943, and previous to their scheduling as controlled substances, the psychedelic drugs were widely studied--six international conferences and hundreds of papers discussed their potential therapeutic usefulness. The observation that the frightening experience of delirium tremens sometimes led alcoholics to moderate their...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1998 J A Holland, L Nelson, P R Ravikumar et al.
A growing trend of smoking marijuana soaked in what is purported to be embalming fluid has been reported in the literature since the mid-1980s. This article describes several cases of intoxication, gives regional epidemiological data on this phenomenon, and includes current nomenclature. The authors also analyze a sample of fluid said to be embalming fluid and discover PCP (phencyclidine) and...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1998 P L Delgado, F A Moreno
The serotonin (5-HT) neurotransmitter system has been implicated in the pathophysiology of several neuropsychiatric disorders, especially obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Blockade of 5-HT reuptake appears to be an important initial neurobiological event in the therapeutic mechanism of action of antiobsessional drugs. However, for reasons that continue to be poorly understood, clinical...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs June 1, 1997 Evgeny Krupitsky, Alexander Grinenko 241 citations
Ketamine is a prescription drug used for general anesthesia. In subanesthetic doses, it induces profound psychedelic experiences and hallucinations. The subanesthetic effect of ketamine was the hypothesized therapeutic mechanism in the authors' use of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for alcoholism. The results of a controlled clinical trial demonstrated a considerable increase in efficacy of...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs June 1, 1997 Betty Grover Eisner 129 citations
The future use of psychedelics as an aid to therapeutic change is bound to come. The best source of information on how to use these extraordinary drugs is clearly a detailed description of the successes (and failures) of those researchers who have used these compounds to bring curative, creative and growth-potentiating experiences to their patients. A study of their work is recommended in order...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1996 T Lyttle, D Goldstein, J Gartz 84 citations
This paper investigates the supposedly psychedelic Bufo toad and the allegedly psychedelic drug bufotenine, which is contained in the skin and glands of this toad. The bufo toad has held a place in human mythologies and medicines worldwide since archaic times. Used by ancient peoples for a variety of purposes, its most spectacular effects, according to lore, involve magical and shamanic or...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1996 Phil Dalgarno, David Shewan
Semistructured interviews were carried out with 20 illicit users of ketamine in Scotland. Participants had used a wide range of illegal drugs. Scottish drug agencies reported limited contact with ketamine users; however, subjects were knowledgeable regarding the licit purpose of ketamine, its effects, and its legal status. Ketamine was usually obtained through diversion from legitimate sources....
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1994 Leander J. Valdés 147 citations
Salvia divinorum is a vision-inducing mint used by the Mazatec people of Oaxaca, Mexico. It is grown in California and other parts of the United States where it is employed as a legal hallucinogen. Traditional opinion has been that the plant has mild psychotropic activity, at best. However, when ingested in the correct manner, it is quite powerful. The fresh leaves are chewed as a quid and kept...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1994 Thomas J. Riedlinger, June E. Riedlinger 39 citations
CNS deficiency of 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin) has been implicated as a biochemical basis in some forms of depression. Existing drug modalities for treating depression include some with serotonergic effects. Studies suggest that psychedelic drugs are also serotonergic. This may indicate a role for psychedelics in the treatment of depression. Such treatment has already been attempted using...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs April 1, 1993 Thomas J. Riedlinger 7 citations
Citing recently published challenges to R. Gordon Wasson's identification of Vedic soma as the psychoactive mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly-agaric), this article reviews unpublished letters by Wasson in which he considered and rejected other psychoactive plants as candidates, including the mint Lagochilus inebrians, Convolvulaceae (morning glory) seeds, the fungal parasite Claviceps purpurea...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs April 1, 1993 Marlene Dobkin De Rios, Charles S. Grob
" Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia ." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 25(2), pp. 177–178
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs July 1, 1991 Lynne Watson, Jerome Beck 32 citations
The use of MDMA as an adjunct to spiritual pursuit among New Ager seekers is examined. These study respondents indicated that social worlds greatly influenced which qualities of the MDMA experience were most pursued and valued. In contrast to recreationally oriented respondents, who saw minimal long-term benefits accruing from MDMA use, New Agers typically believed that carefully planned...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1991 R J Strassman
Legitimate human research with hallucinogenic drugs, although of great theoretical and practical interest, involves daunting regulatory hurdles that have discouraged investigators from attempting such work. Using the example of the author's own application for and receipt of federal permission to administer N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) to humans, this article reviews the application process,...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1989 Walter Andritzky 59 citations
The social and psychotherapeutic functions of healing rituals with ayahuasca among Amazonian groups are examined, and their healing effectiveness is explained in terms of Western scientific and sociopsychotherapeutic perspectives. The article includes an overview of the preparation and application of ayahuasca, the symbolic adaptations to the process of social change, the role of singing, the...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1989 Gary Bravo, Charles S. Grob 38 citations
This article reviews the role of psychedelic drugs as potential tools for psychiatric research and practice. The decline in the utilization of these substances is linked to social reactions, which led to psychedelics being scheduled as controlled substances and consequently unavailable for human research. Three different paradigms for the use of psychedelics in psychiatry are reviewed: the...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1989 Marlene Dobkin De Rios, Michael Winkelman 37 citations
In this article, the issue of shamanism and altered states of consciousness (ASC) is reviewed from a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspective. It is suggested that in spite of considerable differences in the uses of these terms, there are conceptual and empirical grounds for distinction among different types of trance practitioners. The authors argue that shamanism is a cultural...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1989 W Emboden 32 citations
Contemporary reference to the role of water lilies and mandrakes (Nymphaea and Mandragora, respectively) in ancient Egyptian healing, and subsequent research on the iconography of the water lily in Mayan shamanistic ritual, suggest the possible importance of these plants as adjuncts to shamanistic healing in dynastic Egypt. Although the usual interpretation of the water lily and the mandrake...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1989 Oscar Janiger, Marlene Dobkin De Rios 29 citations
The effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on creativity were examined in a unique experiment in the late 1950's. In this project, artists were asked to draw and paint a Kachina doll both prior to and one hour after the ingestion of LSD. Evaluations of these artistic productions were analyzed by a professor of art history in order to investigate the impact of LSD on artistic creativity....
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1989 P A Wright 20 citations
A review of the literature suggests that a common psychobiological process is associated with various altered states of consciousness (ASC) utilized by shamans, meditators, and mediums. However, the shamanic state of consciousness (SSC) can be differentiated physiologically from possession trance states. The psychophysiological literature on different types of trances and on seizure conditions...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1989 R Noll 11 citations
Within anthropology, investigations of shamans and their altered states of consciousness have followed some of the prescriptive problems inherited from the discipline of psychology, coloring the assumptions and perspectives of students of shamanism. These inherited problems include the following: conscious/volitional versus unconscious/involuntary mentalisms; contentual objectivism versus...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1989 H A Senn 4 citations
The literature on shamanism generally describes a specially gifted individual who is able to contact and communicate with a realm where spirit beings offer wisdom and help, and who actively transmits this knowledge to others. There seem to be approximately five features that define shamanism: the necessity of a "call"--an illness or accident that signifies the necessity of the individual to...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1989 H Wautischer 3 citations
In a state of voluntary trance or meditation, the perception of reality appears to extend beyond the usual spatial and temporal boundaries that are normally perceived by the sense organs. It is argued that the problems of validity and reliability of trance experiences for scientific discourse are in principle no different than the problems associated with ordinary perception. The shift in early...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1987 John R. Neill 18 citations
(1987). “More Than Medical Significance”: LSD and American Psychiatry—1953 to 1966. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 39-45.