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Developing Education and Treatment Protocols for Substance Use Disorders That Are Socially Responsible, Accountable, and Integrated
Published in Sahar Swidan, Matthew Bennett, Advanced Therapeutics in Pain Medicine, 2020
Patients with an SUD commonly will be familiar with near-death experiences during their active use. In many cases, repeated exposure to near-death experiences may condition them to not even recognize some near-death experiences as being critical ones. Many of these “experiences” may include witnessing or being connected to life events that result in trauma. Experiences could include harm from weapons, physical altercation requiring medical attention, car accidents, witnessing accidental death, and death and revival. Additionally, many will suffer from physical health issues—overdosing, contracting a sexually transmitted infection, or contracting hepatitis C, or a patient revival from death.
Telestic mania and near-death experiences
Published in Yulia Ustinova, Divine Mania, 2017
Near-death experiences occur to the dying or those facing a real possibility of death – and in many cases actually end in death. Prior to death, many modern subjects reported transition from anxiety and pain to an ineffable sensation of serenity and being cleansed. People who had near-death experiences are transformed, most notably they are ‘not concerned about dying.’286 For many modern survivors, near-death experiences are the most intense and happiest moments of their lives. A modern respondent described an overwhelming sensation of peace during her near-death experience: ‘If you took one thousand best things in your life and multiplied it by a million, maybe… you could get close to this feeling.’287
A primer on sleeping, dreaming, and psychoactive agents
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 2023
Ketamine, a glutamate receptor antagonist, is used clinically, primarily in developing nations, as an anesthetic, though more recently has become popular as an anti-depressant for treatment-resistant individuals. Thus, it, like PCP, has potent sedative effects that can not only disorientate a user but also induce sleep. When ketamine is used in surgery, recovery tends to be slower than when other anesthetics are employed (Schwenk et al., 2018). Violent dreams and flashbacks have been associated with both clinical and non-medical use of the drug. In larger doses, the ‘K-hole’ effect occurs a distinct feeling of mind and body separation that in severe circumstances can lead to stupor or unconsciousness, with a resulting feeling of confusion and loss of short-term memory. Some have equated this to an out-of-body or near-death experience. Ketamine use increases nREM intensity and duration, and while it does not increase or decrease REM sleep, ketamine use does tend to produce more vivid and violent dreaming (Feinberg & Campbell, 1993; Hejja & Galloon, 1975).
Personality Traits in Former Spanish Substance Users Recovered with Ayahuasca
Published in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2020
The qualitative part of the research included the participants’ descriptions of experiences during the ayahuasca ritual, and was published elsewhere (Apud 2017b, 2019). Experiences of Aya Group participants were clustered in four main types: i. reviews of the past (e.g. biographical revisions, negative experiences related to the drug, traumatic episodes), ii. psychological insights (e.g. recognition of personal conflicts, patterns of psychological malfunctioning and positive personal resources), iii. emotional experiences (e.g. grief, forgiveness, feelings of love), and iv. spiritual experiences (e.g. mystical union with the whole, near-death experiences, traveling to other places, out-of-body experiences). These experiences are considered by the participants as the most useful for their recovery, both in the present study and in similar ones (Fernández and Fábregas 2014; Grob et al. 1996; Loizaga-Velder and Verres 2014; Talin and Sanabria 2017), and can be considered as subjective events that trigger different changes in the personality of the participants.
Twenty-Seven-Year Follow-Up of Vietnam Air War USAF POWs and Matched Controls Not Captured: A Qualitative Study
Published in Psychiatry, 2018
William Sledge, Julia Rozanova, Julianne Dorset
In terms of the social relationships domain, participating in the war forced controls into stressful separations from their families, which helped them realize family members’ value. Their near-death experiences helped them readjust their values and priorities, putting their “relationships with family” first: One time, I thought I was certainly to die and was surprised that I did not. My whole outlook on life has changed. The only important things in my life now are my children and the relationships I have with them and how they will act when they enter society. My main concern is the value they obtain from life and how they remember me.