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Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine

Psychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine

Kempner, Joanna

Hardcover

Health GeneralPain Management

Publisher Price: $32.00

ISBN10: 0306828944
ISBN13: 9780306828942
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: Jun 4 2024
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.26
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.11
Language: English
Award-winning sociologist Joanna Kempner unearths how a group of ordinary people debilitated by excruciating pain developed their own medicine from home-grown psilocybin mushrooms--crafting near-clinical grade dosing protocols--and fought for recognition in a broken medical system.

Cluster headache, a diagnosis sometimes referred to as a 'suicide headache, ' is widely considered the most severe pain disorder that humans experience. There is no cure, and little funding available for research into developing treatments.

When Joanna Kempner met Bob Wold in 2012, she was introduced to a world beyond most people's comprehension--a clandestine network determined to find relief using magic mushrooms. These 'Clusterbusters, ' a group united only by the internet and a desire to survive, decided to do the research that medicine left unfinished. They produced their own psychedelic treatment protocols and managed to get academics at Harvard and Yale to test their results. Along the way, Kempner explores not only the fascinating history and exploding popularity of psychedelic science, but also a regulatory system so repressive that the sick are forced to find their own homegrown remedies, and corporate America and university professors stand to profit from their transgressions.

From the windswept shores of the North Sea through the verdant jungle of Peruvian Amazon to a kitschy underground palace built in a missile silo in Kansas, Psychedelic Outlaws chronicles the rise of psychedelic medicine amid a healthcare system in turmoil. Kempner's gripping tale of community and resilience brings readers on a eye-opening journey through the politics of pain, through the stories of people desperate enough to defy the law for a moment of relief.

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