“Psychedelic drug use appears to be increasing in Australia.
The latest National Drug Strategy Household Survey from 2022–23 saw the percentage of Australians who used a psychedelic drug rise from 1.6 per cent in 2019 to 2.4 per cent three years later taking the number of people who use these drugs annually up to about 500,000 people.”
I wonder if this is because alcohol is harder to afford for many now ?
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Such stupid sensationalism. It’s called Wood Lovers Paralysis and is common with azuracens and somewhat with psilocybes. It’s literally just the weak feeling that sometimes adds to the body load during come up. It goes away before the drugs even fully kick in.
Better make people scared of the safest drug out there, they might think for themselves otherwise.
SarahFromOz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Who to believe?
“Wood-lover’s Paralysis (WLP) is an extremely rare, but potentially fatal, toxidrome causing unpredictable muscle weakness.
Dr Simon Beck, an MD in his final year of psychiatry training, and Mr Caine Barlow MSc, a mycologist and education officer for Ethnogenesis Australis, along with Dr Monica Barratt and Dr Liam Engel, have been the first to describe Wood-lover’s Paralysis in a study published in Toxicon.
According to the Victorian Coroner’s report, released this month, WLP was potentially associated with the death of Rachael Lee Dixon, who ingested magic mushrooms at a wellness retreat last year.”
…com.au/…/australian-experts-first-to-describe-po…
Taleya@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Well unpredictable muscle weakness is your indicator right there .
You could die from muscle paralysis in shrooms, same way you could die from being hit in the chest with a puck playing hockey at just the right millisecond in your cardiac beat.
Possible doesn’t mean likely.
y0kai@anarchist.nexus 4 days ago
Lol they cant even say that she died of it, only that they “couldn’t rule it out”
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Yea that’s the scare tactic bullshit I read too. Wildly unscientific.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Plenty of morons manage to bumble their way through medical school, this study is the only one to ever describe this alleged syndrome, and there are obvious political motives and extremely well documented previous examples of academics falsifying data to support drug prohibition, so I’m gonna go ahead and not believe this at all
Ilandar@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Nine Perfect Strangers?