General
Practice of consuming a very small dose of a psychedelic substance or other drugs
What is Microdosing?
How SES can can influence health outcomes
What is by determining one’s resources, lifestyles, external stressors, and the habitual response to those stressors?
Process of making different human conditions and behaviors a medical condition/ problem
What is Medicalization?
Reflects different “value commitments” & includes the structure, distribution, and effects of power in society
What is Politics?
James Monroe’s moral framework
What is concerned with the idea that our political past shapes the current foundation of public health policy?
Most popular forms of microdosing
What is LSD and psilocybin mushrooms?
Status determined by one’s social class leading to certain levels of income, education, or occupation
Examples of medicalization
What is obesity, alcoholism, premenstrual syndrome and even death?
Two diverse political perspectives exist on microdosing
What is strict prohibition vs advocacy for decriminalization/regulation?
Believes illness reveals relationship with God, emphasizes individual rights, distrust in government, individual responsibility for personal choices
What is Individualism?
What is recreational/spiritual activity OR coping with mental health symptoms OR daily benefits?
What is better access to resources including better education, housing, and medications?
Criticized by many as they believe that the medical industry has profited a lot from making normal conditions medical
What is “over-medicalization” and “disease-mongering”?
Central to the discussion on integrating microdosing into mental health treatment
What is political decisions related to healthcare policy?
Works to fix unjust system, focus on “common good”, protect most vulnerable, “do what’s right for others”
What is Communal Tradition?
Cost of microdosing
What is inaccessibility, illegal status, risk of substance abuse, and questionable credibility?
Available to those that practice microdosing and is more common for those of a higher SES
What is psychotherapy and other support?
Process through which medical conditions become natural, also exists.
Intertwined with political rhetoric of prominent political figures, who shape public attitudes and discourse surrounding microdosing practices
Says microdosing is an upstream problem and legalizing drugs like marijuana will stop those who do microdose from being sent to prison for minor drug possession, issue is a "government problem"
What is the Communal Tradition approach?
According to the Journal of Psychopharmacology, one definition of a microdose
What is 1% of a pharmacologically active dose?
Microdosing is becoming culturally known among middle and upper class as a means to
What is increase productivity and decrease anxiety?
Medicalization of psychedelics and making them legal for medical use is an easy way of
What is destigmatizing them and increasing access for them?
Examples are government agencies, research grants, regulations
What is politics' influences on the allocation of research funding for microdosing?
Downstream approach, says problems with microdosing arise due to individuals own choices and behaviors, likely to relate problems of microdosing to people who have low SES
What is the Individualism approach?