
Do you Believe in Magic (Mushrooms)?
01/07/21 • 24 min
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Is your doctor going to be tripping on mushrooms? Sicker Than Your Average Health Show (STYAHS) brings you our third episode! Josh & Preet look at the latest developments that may possibly make magic mushrooms available in Canada, before comparing and contrasting legalization when it comes to psilocybin versus cannabis.
Join us as we dig into the health headlines you already know and tell you more about the ones you don’t.
Credits
Editor: Mack Britton
Logo design: Brad Hart
Music: I Got a Funky Feeling by Calmer Palmer thanks to RitualMusic.com
Links
- https://boingboing.net/2020/12/08/canadas-health-minister-says-health-care-professionals-can-consume-magic-mushrooms.html
- https://youtu.be/XBEas8MGzd0
- https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/12/10/Health-Canada-Removes-Barrier-Psilocybin/
- https://merryjane.com/news/17-canadian-mental-health-professionals-are-now-allowed-to-trip-on-shrooms-for-work
- https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-use/controlled-illegal-drugs/magic-mushrooms.html
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adw4w/canada-is-allowing-people-with-depression-to-do-psychedelic-mushrooms
- https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/magic-mushrooms-trip-through-the-science/id1051557000?i=1000502003842
- https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2020002/article/00002-eng.htm
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6710088/
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/some-doctors-therapists-get-health-canada-permission-to-use-magic-mushrooms-1.5834485
- https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/science-history-psychedelic-therapy-feel-good-friday/id1034035933?i=1000496600895
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813425/
- https://therapsil.ca/bibliography/
- Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy: A Review of a Novel Treatment for Psychiatric Disorders by Kelan Thomas, Benjamin Malcolm & Dan Lastra in journal of psychoactive drugs Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2017.1320734
- Potential Therapeutic Effects of Psilocybin by Matthew W. Johnson & Roland R. Griffiths in Neurotherapeutics (2017)
- The 21st century psychedelic renaissance: heroic steps forward on the back of an elephant by Ben Sessa in Psychopharmacology (2018)
- Psychedelic Psychiatry’s Brave New World by David Nutt, David Erritzoe, and Robin Carhart-Harris in Cell (2020) Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.020
Is your doctor going to be tripping on mushrooms? Sicker Than Your Average Health Show (STYAHS) brings you our third episode! Josh & Preet look at the latest developments that may possibly make magic mushrooms available in Canada, before comparing and contrasting legalization when it comes to psilocybin versus cannabis.
Join us as we dig into the health headlines you already know and tell you more about the ones you don’t.
Credits
Editor: Mack Britton
Logo design: Brad Hart
Music: I Got a Funky Feeling by Calmer Palmer thanks to RitualMusic.com
Links
- https://boingboing.net/2020/12/08/canadas-health-minister-says-health-care-professionals-can-consume-magic-mushrooms.html
- https://youtu.be/XBEas8MGzd0
- https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/12/10/Health-Canada-Removes-Barrier-Psilocybin/
- https://merryjane.com/news/17-canadian-mental-health-professionals-are-now-allowed-to-trip-on-shrooms-for-work
- https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-use/controlled-illegal-drugs/magic-mushrooms.html
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adw4w/canada-is-allowing-people-with-depression-to-do-psychedelic-mushrooms
- https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/magic-mushrooms-trip-through-the-science/id1051557000?i=1000502003842
- https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2020002/article/00002-eng.htm
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6710088/
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/some-doctors-therapists-get-health-canada-permission-to-use-magic-mushrooms-1.5834485
- https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/science-history-psychedelic-therapy-feel-good-friday/id1034035933?i=1000496600895
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813425/
- https://therapsil.ca/bibliography/
- Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy: A Review of a Novel Treatment for Psychiatric Disorders by Kelan Thomas, Benjamin Malcolm & Dan Lastra in journal of psychoactive drugs Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2017.1320734
- Potential Therapeutic Effects of Psilocybin by Matthew W. Johnson & Roland R. Griffiths in Neurotherapeutics (2017)
- The 21st century psychedelic renaissance: heroic steps forward on the back of an elephant by Ben Sessa in Psychopharmacology (2018)
- Psychedelic Psychiatry’s Brave New World by David Nutt, David Erritzoe, and Robin Carhart-Harris in Cell (2020) Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.020
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Robot Doctors
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Join us as we dig into the health headlines you already know and more about the ones you don’t.
Credits:
Logo design: Brad Hart
Music: Dark Whistle Triphop by Down 7 thanks to RitualMusic.com
Voices: Will, Colleen, Sydney, Hanna, Chris, Camille, Angela, Kassie
Links
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50857759
https://hbr.org/podcast/2019/05/when-ai-meets-medicine
https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/artificial-intelligence-healthcare
https://medicalfuturist.com/robotics-healthcare/
https://www.verbsurgical.com/about/
https://futurism.com/first-time-robot-passed-medical-licensing-exam
https://getreferralmd.com/2019/04/10-powerful-examples-of-ai-used-in-healthcare-today/
https://www.rtinsights.com/challenge-ai-medical-imaging/
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/news-room/docs/what-doctor-why-ai-and-robotics-will-define-new-health.pdf
https://www.mathworks.com/discovery/deep-learning.html
https://towardsdatascience.com/why-ai-will-not-replace-radiologists-c7736f2c7d80
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1409841
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TalkThatTok, with Dr. Anna Blakney, PhD
What if we told you our show wasn't the quickest way to get your health information? We're just as surprised as you are. Sicker Than Your Average Health Show (STYAHS) is joined by special guest Dr. Anna Blakney, PhD (https://www.tiktok.com/@anna.blakney) on episode four to discuss the latest developments in sharing health information, and whether it might be time for all of us to jump on TikTok...?!
Join us as we dig into the health headlines you already know and tell you more about the ones you don’t.
Ritual Music Link: https://www.ritualmusic.com/r/SickHealthShow
Promo Code: SickHealthShow for 50% off music.
Credits
Editing and Production Assistance: Mack Britton
Logo design: Brad Hart
Music: Let it Roll by Kaleidoscope Ltd. - thanks to RitualMusic.com
Thanks to Joelle Seal from CBC Saskatchewan for consultation on bringing stories to life.
Links
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/health/tiktok-doctors-sex-6ed.html
- http://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2020/04/23/the-rise-of-health-ed-tiktoks/
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/18/us/tiktok-doctors-nurses-trnd/index.html
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6981526/
- https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-gb/taking-action-against-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation
- https://www.tiktok.com/@anna.blakney
- https://www.tiktok.com/@drjenniferlincoln?lang=en
- https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.staci.t
- https://neverlickthespoon.podbean.com/e/episode-13-lucky-for-some/
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qjyl
- https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/43-how-the-covid-rna-vaccine-works-systemic-racism-origin-of-humans/
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