Traumatized by war and sexual assaults, some U.S. veterans and veterans’ spouses are seeking help in a Mexican clinic that treats depression and addiction with potent hallucinogens like toad poison.
Tag: Therapy and Rehabilitation
This Psychiatric Hospital Used to Chain Patients. Now It Treats Them.
Sierra Leone, one of the world’s poorest countries, is working to build a modern mental health system from scratch.
Leprosy Hospital Offers Healing, and a Haven, to the Shunned
While leprosy is now easily treated, those who have the disease are still often ostracized. But they’re always welcome at this refuge in India, a nation that records over half the world’s cases.
Canadian Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ Set to Go Into Effect
The law, which takes effect on Friday, puts Canada in the company of more than a dozen countries that have banned the widely discredited practice.
Cognitive Rehab: One Patient’s Painstaking Path Through Long Covid Therapy
Samantha Lewis is relearning some basic aspects of her daily life after struggling with brain fog and other lingering symptoms for more than a year since being infected by the virus.
Hate Crimes and Pandemic Lead More Asian Americans to Seek Therapy
A growing number of Asian Americans have overcome a cultural stigma attached to seeking mental health treatment, experts said.
After Bars and Beaches, Gibbons Await a New Home in Thailand
The small apes were once widespread across much of Asia. But rampant deforestation and ruthless hunting of the acrobatic animal has greatly reduced its numbers and its habitat.
Bergamo’s Covid-19 Survivors Carry Scars Unseen and Incalculable
Plagued by guilt, anger and regrets, those still alive in the hardest hit place in Italy, and perhaps the world, grapple to understand how the virus has changed them.
How a Man With a Van Is Challenging U.K. Drug Policy
A former drug user turned activist is addressing Scotland’s alarming drug death crisis by running the nation’s first drug consumption room — and risking arrest to do it.
‘A Hail Mary’: Psychedelic Therapy Draws Veterans to Jungle Retreats
Ayahuasca, a vomit-inducing hallucinogenic brew, draws thousands of people each year — including former soldiers — to jungle retreats that have become an unlicensed and unregulated mental health marketplace.