Altered States
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Sex, Psychedelics and Consent (Pt. 2)
Sex, Psychedelics and Consent (Pt. 2)
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Psychedelics are now at the center of a global conversation about mental health, mysticism, and even how we experience illness and death. In Altered States, host Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores how people are taking these drugs, who has access to them, how they're regulated, who stands to profit, and what these substances might offer us as individuals and as a society.
Co-produced by PRX and the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, Altered States is an award-winning podcast, taking home a 2025 Signal Award for Science and the 2026 Webby Award for Science and Education. To learn more, visit us our website.
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- Sex, Psychedelics and Consent (Pt. 2) · 28 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 11Allegations of sexual, financial, and psychological abuse sometimes arise in the growing psychedelic church movement in Utah and beyond. A leader or guide might use their…
- Psychedelic Church vs. State of Utah (Pt. 1) · 42 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 10In November 2024, police raided Singularism, an establishment that claims to be a new religion founded by a former Mormon man. But before the state could press charges…
- Psychedelics for Anorexia? · 42 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 9In South Africa, a former ballet dancer and horseback rider struggled for years with anorexia. After undergoing in-patient treatment and regular therapy, she tried psychedelics…
- In Texas’s Peyote Gardens · 47 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 8Reporter Adreanna Rodriguez gets invited to Texas to harvest peyote, a psychoactive cactus often caught in the crosshairs of the so-called psychedelic Renaissance. When she…
- Mice on Magic Mushrooms · 25 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 7How do you know if a mouse is on a psychedelic? It might just shake its head. This behavior, known as the head-twitch response, signals whether a molecule is a psychedelic-like…
- UPDATE: A Navy SEAL Goes to Mexico to take Ibogaine · 45 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 6A former Navy SEAL named Craig deployed nine times over nearly three decades in the military. When he left the service, he felt lucky to have all his limbs, toes and fingers. But…
- Was Ayahuasca Used for Political Indoctrination in Brazil? · 40 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 5In 2023, supporters of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro violently stormed the capital in an attempted coup. Among Bolsonaro’s most loyal supporters were leaders in the…
- An Ayahuasca Message · 23 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 4The Noke Koi are an Indigenous group from Acre, Brazil who consider themselves guardians of the psychoactive plant brew ayahuasca, which they call “uni.” This summer, they…
- Was it DMT? Or was it heaven? · 34 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 3When a neurosurgeon claimed he glimpsed the afterlife during a coma, skeptics offered a more earthly interpretation – a surge of DMT produced by his own body. Was his tale of…
- The Psychedelic Playlist · 47 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 2Vivaldi. Bach. The Beatles. The Johns Hopkins playlist has been the standard soundtrack in psychedelic trials at Johns Hopkins and therapy rooms around the world for more than 25…
- A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Muslim Leader Get High · 52 min. · Sæson 2 Episode 1Nearly a decade ago, researchers at Johns Hopkins University gave some two dozen religious leaders from various faith backgrounds a high dose of psilocybin. Now, the long-awaited…
- Coming Soon: Altered States Season 2 · 3 min. · Sæson 2Over the next ten episodes we’re going to explore two distinct camps in the world of psychedelics. On one side there’s the realm of spiritualists, mystical experiences, and…
- A Navy SEAL Goes to Mexico to take Ibogaine · 44 min. · Sæson 1A former Navy SEAL named Craig deployed nine times over nearly three decades in the military. When he left the service, he felt lucky to have all his limbs, toes and fingers. But…
- The Peyote Plan · 26 min. · Sæson 1A plan to protect the peyote cactus is taking shape on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska during this summer’s Native American Church of North America conference. Indigenous…
- What if Ketamine is More Addictive Than We Thought? · 42 min. · Sæson 1When journalist Anna Silman started reporting on ketamine five years ago she did so because people in her friend group had begun taking the drug recreationally. She was intrigued…
- Psychedelics on the Ballot · 26 min. · Sæson 1At first the effort in Oregon to legalize psilocybin seemed doomed. Then the organizers started talking to the architect behind the carefully coordinated, state-by-state campaign…
- A Former War Correspondent Unravels · 48 min. · Sæson 1Ernesto Londoño is a national correspondent and former war correspondent at The New York Times. For most of his life, Ernesto was a classic journalist – skeptical, stoic – whose…
- Show Update · 1 min. · Sæson 1Altered States is taking a short breather and will be back soon. In the meantime, consider joining host Arielle Duhaime-Ross and other journalists for a virtual panel called The…
- Fair Trade Ibogaine · 33 min. · Sæson 1In recent years, an increasing number of international clinics have begun offering treatments using ibogaine, a psychedelic drug that comes from a West African plant, to help…
- The Longest Trip · 40 min. · Sæson 1Several years ago, Heather was given three doses of psilocybin as part of a clinical study for treatment-resistant depression. Ever since, she’s been experiencing strange visual…
