It’s shroom-picking season: How to stay safe while foraging for psychedelics
As the picking season ramps up in NSW, we’ve chatted to two peer educators in the plant medicine space, Dr Liam Engel and Caine Barlow to find out what NOT to do when foraging.
Magic mushrooms for meth?
There is an ongoing clinical trial of giving psilocybin (the active ingredient in ‘magic mushrooms’) to help people who are living with a methamphetamine (‘meth’ or ‘ice’) use disorder. Maureen Steele is a Peer Worker who helped design the trial to ensure it gives users what they need to succeed.
Coming over and coming out
3 women from 3 different backgrounds put their family and their drug use together in 3 different ways
How to support your mates when they’re having a drug freak-out
We know how hard it is to see a friend having a rough time. So here are some top tips from peer experience that might help you to support and guide someone through this experience