"Psychedelic drug use appears to be increasing in Australia.
The latest National Drug Strategy Household Survey from 2022–23 saw the percentage of Australians who used a psychedelic drug rise from 1.6 per cent in 2019 to 2.4 per cent three years later taking the number of people who use these drugs annually up to about 500,000 people."
I wonder if this is because alcohol is harder to afford for many now ?
Who to believe?
"Wood-lover’s Paralysis (WLP) is an extremely rare, but potentially fatal, toxidrome causing unpredictable muscle weakness.
Dr Simon Beck, an MD in his final year of psychiatry training, and Mr Caine Barlow MSc, a mycologist and education officer for Ethnogenesis Australis, along with Dr Monica Barratt and Dr Liam Engel, have been the first to describe Wood-lover’s Paralysis in a study published in Toxicon.
According to the Victorian Coroner’s report, released this month, WLP was potentially associated with the death of Rachael Lee Dixon, who ingested magic mushrooms at a wellness retreat last year."
https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2025/37/australian-experts-first-to-describe-potentially-fatal-magic-mushroom-toxidrome/
Well unpredictable muscle weakness is your indicator right there .
You could die from muscle paralysis in shrooms, same way you could die from being hit in the chest with a puck playing hockey at just the right millisecond in your cardiac beat.
Possible and potential don’t mean likely.
Plenty of people die from diaphragm weakness… probably worthy of investigating it to see actual occurrences ?
the poorly understood part is they don’t know what causes it. If it’s actually physiological or psychological or both.
But this is the first step in research. Theyve identifed that many different users that completed the survey have experienced it… now they further drill down on that.
Lol they cant even say that she died of it, only that they “couldn’t rule it out”
Yea that’s the scare tactic bullshit I read too. Wildly unscientific.
It looks like it was a qualitative study in an identified literature gap. Which parts of it are wildly unscientific?
Do you eat psychedelic mushrooms very frequently?
Nope, hence why I didn’t participate in the study.
The sarcasm isn’t necessary. Anybody that uses them with any regularity is aware of wlp if they know it’s name or not
Im a bit lost at your point? You said it’s a scare tactic, I said it’s a qualitative study in an identified literature gap. You said anyone who uses them knows about WLP… I’m not quite sure about what side you’re on?
Plenty of morons manage to bumble their way through medical school, this study is the only one to ever describe this alleged syndrome, and there are obvious political motives and extremely well documented previous examples of academics falsifying data to support drug prohibition, so I’m gonna go ahead and not believe this at all
Nine Perfect Strangers?