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moonhoney2
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Clusterbusters makes the news!
« on: Aug 17th, 2006, 3:26pm » |
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Read an article in the Chicago Suntimes about Clusterbusters. Love the last paragraph. Like sufferers are really going to wait years and years to see if maybe the gov't will approve this treatment. 
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-shrooms16.html
BTW, Sean has been PF since about a week or two after his dose. 
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Re: Clusterbusters makes the news!
« Reply #1 on: Aug 17th, 2006, 4:01pm » |
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All I can say is WOW! Fatastic article! All we can hope for at this time is some recognition that shrooms, LSD, LSA are viable options for clusterheadaches, and that these alternatives will begin to be prescibed for us.
Thanks for posting this info. It give me hope.
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Re: Clusterbusters makes the news!
« Reply #2 on: Aug 18th, 2006, 2:16am » |
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Any exposure is good imho !!
the more GP's that know all the details of CH , the less people that go un/miss diagnosed !!!
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Re: Clusterbusters makes the news!
« Reply #3 on: Aug 18th, 2006, 12:41pm » |
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I can't help but think the drug companies will latch on to this kind of study and find a way to get approval to sell it and it will cost a freakin fortune for those of us that need it.
I can see shrooms being a 'controlled ' substance and that's what will bring it to the market place. But then what do I know.
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More news!
« Reply #4 on: Aug 18th, 2006, 3:26pm » |
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http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur
The Lancet Neurology, Current Issue, Volume 5, Number 9, September 2006:
Hallucinogen Research inspires “neurotheology”
The perceived benefits of psychedelic drugs are not commonly thought to extend to health. However, new research suggests that subhallucinogenic doses of the active compound in magic mushrooms and LSD may help prevent cluster headache. In a feature, Kelly Morris investigates potential neurological uses of psychedelic drugs.....
The full text online is $ 30,- - can anybody lend me a fiver? 
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Re: More news!
« Reply #5 on: Aug 18th, 2006, 3:53pm » |
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on Aug 18th, 2006, 3:26pm, cluster wrote:
Hi Friedrich,
Thanks for the heads-up. I'll work on getting a copy.
Bobw
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Re: Clusterbusters makes the news!
« Reply #6 on: Aug 18th, 2006, 7:17pm » |
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Hey Bob,
I don't mind shelling out the $30 for the premium content on the Lancent website -- unless you've already done it. Just let me know. I also have no problem reposting the entire article over here and giving the reference where I got it from. What the hell, share and share alike, right?
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Re: Clusterbusters makes the news!
« Reply #7 on: Aug 19th, 2006, 1:33am » |
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on Aug 18th, 2006, 7:17pm, Bond007 wrote:| I don't mind shelling out the $30 for the premium content on the Lancent website -- unless you've already done it. |
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I appreciate it. Give me 24 hours to see if I can get one for free
Then you can send in 10.00 for the premium content, to each of, Clusterbusters, OUCH and ch.com 
Thanks for the offer, really. It's very thoughtful. I'll let you know.
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Re: Clusterbusters makes the news!
« Reply #8 on: Aug 19th, 2006, 12:11pm » |
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The Lancet...
Taken from:
The Lancet Neurology
Volume 5, Issue 9 , September 2006, Page 732
Hallucinogen research inspires “neurotheology”
Kelly Morris
For decades, the benefits of psychedelic drugs have mostly been
explored through individual experimentation. Whether these
hallucinogens can induce true mystical experiences has been debated.
In a landmark paper, US researchers now report that psilocybin, the
active compound in “magic mushrooms”, induced mystical experiences
identical to other reported mystical states in more than 60% of
participants (Psychopharmacology 2006; published online July 7. DOI:
10.1007/s00213-006-0457-5). Moreover, after 2 months, 79% of
participants reported enhanced well-being. So what has prompted these
investigations and how might such substances improve health?
“In the 1950s and 1960s, basic science and applied research studies
were taking place with hallucinogens, offering hints that they might
be of value in psychotherapy, addiction treatment, and creativity
enhancement, and suggestions that the hallucinogens can occasion
mystical-type experiences. Laws enacted in response to excesses of
the ‘psychedelic 1960s' stopped almost all that work, leaving some
promising threads dangling”, notes lead author Roland Griffiths
(Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA).
John Halpern (Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, Belmont,
USA), who is instigating studies on psilocybin and LSD for cluster
headaches with study lead Andrew Sewell, says the “temperature of the
day” is insufficient to wholly preclude research. “Many years of hard
groundwork have set the stage for the carefully crafted studies now
being reported on. Such research could always have been performed but
it is up to investigators to initiate such work and to justify that
the potential benefits may outweigh risks.”
The mechanisms and potential benefits of hallucinogens are being
studied worldwide. Whether these benefits are due to
psychopharmacological action, induced psychological changes, or both
is unclear.
Halpern and colleagues did a questionnaire study of 53 people taking
psilocybin or LSD for cluster headaches. Although Halpern says that
speculation on mechanisms is premature before efficacy studies are
done, 22 of the 53 patients reported partial or complete efficacy
from subhallucinogenic doses. If proven in rigorous studies, such
efficacy might lie in the serotonergic action that characterises most
hallucinogens.
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Ultimately, study of hallucinogens may reveal that psychopharmacology
underpins these potentially transformative experiences. Solomon
Snyder of Johns Hopkins comments on the Psychopharmacology paper:
“[By] showing that one can responsibly conduct clinical research with
psychedelic drugs and by confirming the mystical influences of these
agents, Griffiths et al may help resurrect psychedelic drugs as major
tools in probing the molecular bases of consciousness”. Further, he
notes that serotonin, discovered via LSD studies, may underpin the
integration of sensory perception, so changes in serotonin systems
could be related to the ego-transcendence that occurs in mystical
experiences.
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I've snipped out a bit here and there....if anyone wants a full text copy, email or IM me. Although everything that applies to clusters is in the above text.
Bobw
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Re: Clusterbusters makes the news!
« Reply #9 on: Aug 19th, 2006, 1:48pm » |
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Bob, you are amazing! I'm not gonna ask, but that's fantastic! The donations will be forthcoming.
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