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Hand in Hand: How Psychedelic Harm Reduction Is Making a Difference Now
This article was written by Shannon Clare Petitt, M.A., M.F.T.I. and appeared in the MAPS Bulletin, Winter 2016: Vol. 26 No. 3 Annual Report The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) continues to make huge strides towards the goal of establishing psychedelics as legal medicines. In advancing the cause of psychedelic therapy, the organization has also […]
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AfrikaBurn: An International Incubator for Psychedelic Harm Reduction
This article was written by Ryan Jay Beauregard and appeared in MAPS Bulletin, Summer 2016: Vol. 26, No. 2 Research Edition AfrikaBurn is an annual regional Burning Man event started in 2006 by a group of South Africans whose lives were forever changed at Burning Man. With the support of a few amazing individuals within the […]
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Zendo Project Fundraising Campaign 2016
Help Provide Compassionate Care for Difficult Psychedelic Experiences Keep Festival Attendees Safer The Zendo Project provides a safe space and professionally trained staff to care for individuals at festivals, concerts, and other events where psychedelic substance use may be present. Zendo Project staff and volunteers work closely with event security and medical response teams to […]
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Psychedelic Harm Reduction in the Festival Industry: An Interview with Do LaB Co-Founder Dede Flemming
This article was written by Linnae Ponté and appeared in MAPS Bulletin Spring 2016: Vol 26 No. 1 Special Edition: Psychedelics and the New Economy Linnae Ponté, MAPS Director of Harm Reduction, spoke with Dede Flemming, co-founder of festival and event production company The Do LaB, to talk about growing support in the festival industry for […]
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7 Ways To Help Someone Who’s Having A Bad Trip
Original Article By Rachel Sturtz on Refinery29: Learning about Psychedelic Harm Reduction Last month, I sat cross-legged on a plush, red pillow in a classroom at Boulder’s Naropa University and pretended that I, like the 18 other people in class, loved psychedelic drugs. We spent the first 10 minutes taking turns saying our names, two words […]
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Zendo Project 2015 Review
This article was written by Sara Gael, M.A. and appeared in the MAPS Bulletin, Winter 2015 Vol. 25, No. 3 The Zendo Project, started in 2012, is a Psychedelic Harm Reduction community outreach program which provides tranquil spaces at events with trained volunteers to help those having a difficult psychedelic experience to help transform those […]
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Zendo in Rolling Stone Magazine
original article from Rolling Stone Magazine: Meet the People Who Want to Make It Safer to Take Drugs at Festivals Earlier this month, two teenage girls died at the HARD Summer music festival in Ponoma, California, reportedly from “suspected drug overdoses.” Less than two weeks earlier, an autopsy confirmed suspicions that Nicholas Austin Tom, a […]
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Psychedelic Harm Reduction – Summer 2015
This article was written by Zendo Project Staff and appeared in the MAPS Bulletin, Summer 2015: Vol. 25 No. 2 Research Edition This year, millions of people will use psychedelics outside of supervised medical contexts. It is not uncommon for psychedelic users to have difficult psychedelic experiences, such as due to taking too much or being […]
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A Model for Working with Difficult Psychedelic Experiences at Events
This article was written by Brandy Doyle and appeared in the MAPS Bulletin, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Fall 2001) Holding the hand of a screaming man tied to a table in a medical tent, I realized that the situation felt less like psychedelic therapy than it did like a psychedelic Civil War hospital. On Labor Day […]