The Possible Treatment of Pain through Psychedelics
Chronic Pain is still in the process of being studied and fully understood through medical research. It is so common amongst modern men and women. How exactly does chronic pain occur? How could we deal with chronic pain without bringing onto ourselves other problems such as addiction to pain killers? Namely, Opioids, which are the cause of a major crisis running through the United States and beyond at the present moment.
One can develop chronic pain from things as simple as bad posture, manual work that is abusive to the body, having to sit on a chair all day at work. Chronic pain could be the result of some diseases as well such as multiple sclerosis. When one finds oneself in a situation having to revert to clinical drugs to aid with the day to day, then we can start talking about a certain kind of dependency.
Chronic Pain is also particular in the fact that the repetitive nature of it makes it so that one develops a pattern in one’s cerebral connections. Meaning not only does the localized pain remain but the pattern in the brain that informs that pain also becomes set in our physical system.
A recent study entitled: “Chronic pain and psychedelics: a review and proposed mechanism of action”, posted in the publication of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia, suggests that Psychedelics may be a possible for treatment of chronic pain. This is mainly due to the fact that psychedelics have the power to alter cerebral patterns and so could potentially alter the mental pattern that inform these pains. Moreover, psychedelics have shown perhaps to have less negative side effects than prescribed pharmaceuticals. This is all, of course, a matter of dosage and the way the psychedelics are taken. But it is worth looking into this study readily available on the internet as it might inform a long term solution for the accumulation of small aches one so habitually gets through the day to day.