Drug and Alcohol Review
September 29, 2026
Janette L. Smith, Christine A. Harvey, NSW Police Force et al.
INTRODUCTION: The Combined Surveillance and Monitoring of Seized Samples (CoSMoSS) program is a joint harm reduction initiative between NSW Health and NSW Police Force. Here, we examine the contents and purity of a sample of seized suspected target drugs (cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine 'MDMA'). METHODS: Between January 2021 and March 2025, 3378 street...
The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
September 28, 2026
Justine Perino, Amélie Daveluy, Anna Truong-Bastos et al.
Objective: Psychiatric disorders are frequently associated with drug use and substance use disorders (SUDs). This study aimed to (1) assess the risk of psychiatric readmission associated with cannabis use in young adults (18-29 years) with bipolar or psychotic disorders and (2) describe drug use and SUD recorded in their medical files. Methods: This historical cohort included 200 adults aged...
Scientific Reports
September 24, 2026
Giammarco di Gregorio, Basset Sophia, Harjot Manmohan et al.
Abstract Depression and anxiety affect one in five adults and vary across the lifespan; while prevalence generally declines with age until midlife, later life is marked by a re-emergence of symptoms. Although clinical trials suggest classic psychedelics (e.g., psilocybin, LSD) and non-classic psychedelics (e.g., MDMA, ketamine) may alleviate these symptoms, it remains unclear how these...
September 21, 2026
Miriam Cooke
Contesting centuries of mostly male Sufi claims that wajd cannot be articulated beyond tawājud , Huda Naamani, a Syrian Sufi poet and artist, expresses her experience of ecstasy beyond words on the page to a multimedia performance of sound, dance/whirling, and color that fill in the silences that stop the pen struggling to script the barzakh of ecstasy that stretches into infinity before and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 19, 2026
Géraldine Mossière
preprint
5Rhythms (5R) is a dance-based practice founded by Gabrielle Roth (1941-2012) in the late 1970s at the Esalen Institute (Big Sur, CA, USA), a center focused on the development of human potential with a particular emphasis on the body. Roth's teachings were shaped by ecstatic and mystical philosophy, as well as Gestalt therapy. After observing dancers for a decade, Roth noticed that their bodies...
The American Journal of Bioethics
September 18, 2026
Michelle C. Bach
In the current treatment landscape, psychedelics (here broadly defined to include MDMA, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) are under scientific investigation largely for use in chronic and treatmen...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
September 18, 2026
Jacob Noah Pascoe
This thesis proposes a methodology that melds theological inquiry with cinematic analysis ultimately arguing that cinema can serve as a site of mystical encounter. In an age of increasing irrationality, spiritual expression in cinema has shifted from a meditative, passive transcendentalism toward an active, urgent, and often violent mysticism. Drawing on contemporary cinematic examples from...
Cureus
September 17, 2026
Francisco Agostinho, Adriana Moutinho, Catarina Klut Câmara et al.
Recreational nitrous oxide (N2O) inhalation is increasingly prevalent among young adults, but acute psychiatric presentations following short-term binge exposure remain poorly characterized. We report a case of a female in her early 20s with no prior history of psychotic illness who developed an acute psychotic and dissociative syndrome over three days at an outdoor music festival. Her...
September 17, 2026
Casey Rae
Abstract Chapter Five charts how psychedelic culture and the early Grateful Dead catalyzed a new American vocabulary for transformation—spiritual, aesthetic, and political—while revealing the tensions embedded in that promise. It opens with Richard Alpert’s 1966 encounter with the Dead at the Fillmore, where Primal Dead’s volatile improvisation, light shows, and collective ecstasy suggested a...
Routledge eBooks
September 16, 2026
Kathryn Rickard
This chapter examines Contemplation within Releasement Level B of the psychoanalytic model of surrender, describing a shift in the manner in which attention is held rather than the establishment of a reflective or stabilized state. Following the disruptions of Ecstasy and Doubt , what becomes possible is the capacity to remain with unfolding experience without immediately organizing,...