Treating Cannabis and Alcohol Addiction with Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
Thu, Aug 03
|Free Lunchtime Zoom Q&A
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy could be the best chance people have at regaining control. Come ask questions about the risks and benefits of this new and hopeful treatment option. Register at www.epiphanyclinicla.com
Time & Location
Aug 03, 2023, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PDT
Free Lunchtime Zoom Q&A
About the event
Join us for a free lunchtime Q&A on the risks, potential and witnessed results of Psychedlic-Assisted Psychotherapy for treating Addiction:
More about Dr Ocana
His first posting was as medical director of the West Vancouver Addiction day program. During that time it became astonishingly clear how many teens and 20-something year old patients presented with cannabis addiction. This prompted him to take a deep dive into this poorly understood condition. Over the next 15 years he collected data on this group and eventually published a paper in the British Columbia Medical Journal ENTITLED: Cannabis use by adolescents: Practical implications for clinicians.
In that article Dr. Ocana laid out a pattern of use that surprised him and caused quite a stir within the addiction community by proposing that patients with cannabis addiction fell into two subtypes: (1) those who use cannabis Sativa as a stimulant; and (2) those who use cannabis…