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Ian Mitchell
Background:
After completing a bachelors degree in Pharmacology at UBC, I completed a medical degree at McGill, followed by specialty training in emergency medicine at McMaster University. I spent 8 years working at St. Paul's hospital in Vancouver serving a population heavily compromised by psychiatric and substance abuse problems.
Staff Emergency Medicine Physician, Royal Inland Hospital
Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
Site Scholar for Kamloops Family Medicine Resident Program
First aid volunteer at Burning Man
www.clinicalcannabisincontext.tumblr.com
Background:
After completing a bachelors degree in Pharmacology at UBC, I completed a medical degree at McGill, followed by specialty training in emergency medicine at McMaster University. I spent 8 years working at St. Paul's hospital in Vancouver serving a population heavily compromised by psychiatric and substance abuse problems.
Staff Emergency Medicine Physician, Royal Inland Hospital
Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
Site Scholar for Kamloops Family Medicine Resident Program
First aid volunteer at Burning Man
www.clinicalcannabisincontext.tumblr.com
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Ian Mitchell
Background:
After completing a bachelors degree in Pharmacology at UBC, I completed a medical degree at McGill, followed by specialty training in emergency medicine at McMaster University. I spent 8 years working at St. Paul's hospital in Vancouver serving a population heavily compromised by psychiatric and substance abuse problems.
Staff Emergency Medicine Physician, Royal Inland Hospital
Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
Site Scholar for Kamloops Family Medicine Resident Program
First aid volunteer at Burning Man
www.clinicalcannabisincontext.tumblr.com
Background:
After completing a bachelors degree in Pharmacology at UBC, I completed a medical degree at McGill, followed by specialty training in emergency medicine at McMaster University. I spent 8 years working at St. Paul's hospital in Vancouver serving a population heavily compromised by psychiatric and substance abuse problems.
Staff Emergency Medicine Physician, Royal Inland Hospital
Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
Site Scholar for Kamloops Family Medicine Resident Program
First aid volunteer at Burning Man
www.clinicalcannabisincontext.tumblr.com
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Ian Mitchell
MD, CM, FRCP (Emergency Medicine)
I am happy to have helped Royal Inland Hospital to become the first in the country to administer opiate overdose kits to patients who have been admitted with an opiate overdose.
http://metronews.ca/news/edmonton/1387013/researchers-calls-for-broader-nal...
http://metronews.ca/news/edmonton/1387013/researchers-calls-for-broader-nal...
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- Associate Professor UBC Dept of Emergency Medicine
- Site Scholar, Kamloops Family Medicine Program
- Coinvestigator - PTSD & Cannabis Trial
- Provider with MCRCI.com
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London
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Dr. Osmond moved to Saskatchewan, land of Tommy Douglas and revolutionary changes in health care. New ideas were being tolerated. LSD was freely available to scientists at the time and Osmond and his colleagues experimented with alcoholics, having remarkable success.
http://www.nature.com/news/lsd-helps-to-treat-alcoholism-1.10200
http://www.nature.com/news/lsd-helps-to-treat-alcoholism-1.10200
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Among other things he gave mescaline to Aldous Huxley, which inspired him to write the Doors of Perception
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception
The band took their name from the title of Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception, itself derived from a line in William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite".
The band took their name from the title of Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception, itself derived from a line in William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite".
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http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=3296
Even Dan Rather took heroin for a story. http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-rather-tells-us-about-the-time-he-used-h...
Even Dan Rather took heroin for a story. http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-rather-tells-us-about-the-time-he-used-h...
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http://mentalfloss.com/article/81622/canadas-trippy-history-lsd-therapy
Even Tommy Douglas, the Premier of Saskatchewan, endorsed LSD treatment for alcoholism
Even Tommy Douglas, the Premier of Saskatchewan, endorsed LSD treatment for alcoholism
Alcoholism
Adrenaline was produced during the DTs. This was the thought behind using mescaline.
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The Hollywood Hospital in New Westminster. Where celebrities came for LSD treatment up until 1975
https://pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com/2010/09/
https://pasttensevancouver.wordpress.com/2010/09/
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Prohibition of LSD
Under pressure from the Senate led by Senator Hartland Molson of the Molson Brewery family, physicians yielded to the recommendations of policymakers.
Suffice to say, the leading
therapeutic application was using LSD to treat alcoholism, and Senator Molson pushed the law forward, while the brewing industry enjoyed regulations
that helped bring beer to market. E. Dyck, CMAJ 187(14)
Suffice to say, the leading
therapeutic application was using LSD to treat alcoholism, and Senator Molson pushed the law forward, while the brewing industry enjoyed regulations
that helped bring beer to market. E. Dyck, CMAJ 187(14)
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The song "Come Together" was originally a campaign song for Timothy Leary for his run as governor against Ronald Reagan
https://gizmodo.com/john-lennon-wrote-come-together-for-timothy-leary-but-1...
https://gizmodo.com/john-lennon-wrote-come-together-for-timothy-leary-but-1...
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Books
- Psychedelic Explorers Guide - James Fadiman
- Psychedelic Psychiatry - Erika Dyck
- How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
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Future Research
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drivmitchell@gmail.com
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