A young man was hospitalized in serious condition at Saint-Joseph Hospital in Arizona (United States) after injecting himself into his veins with hallucinogenic mushrooms that he had dissolved in a tea.
- A man injected into his veins a kind of tea in which he had boiled hallucinogenic mushrooms.
- A bad idea, since he almost died.
A young man was hospitalized in serious condition after injecting himself into his veins with a tea made from hallucinogenic mushrooms, a mixture he had concocted himself.
Bipolar disorder and opioid addiction
In a case study published in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrydoctors report that a 30-year-old man with bipolar disorder and opiate addiction wanted to self-medicate.
The patient’s family say that he had recently stopped taking the medication prescribed for his bipolar I disorder, after which he began to oscillate dangerously between depressive and manic states. It was during this time that he began researching the therapeutic effects of microdosing LSD and psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic produced by over 200 species of fungi.
Septic shock
From there, the young man prepared a tea with hallucinogenic mushrooms, filtered it through a cotton cloth, then injected it directly into his veins.
When his family discovered him at home a few days later after the injection, the unfortunate man was suffering from jaundice, nausea, diarrhoea, extreme mental confusion and was vomiting blood. His kidneys, liver, and lungs were starting to fail, and his heart rate was way too high. The patient eventually went into septic shock, and was therefore placed in an intensive care unit.
“The fungus is now growing in his blood”
After a blood test, the doctors discovered, amazed, that “the kind of fungus he had injected into his veins was now growing in his blood”.
“It is unknown whether active intravascular infection with a psychoactive fungus such as Psilocybe cubensis can cause persistent psychoactive effects like those seen with ingestion of the same species, but it may contribute to altered perception and cognition” , write the caregivers in the report.
Many trials have shown that psilocybin can have therapeutic effects, especially in the context of severe depression or high anxiety. However, this substance is administered via highly controlled scientific trials. In addition, it is swallowed by the sick, and not injected into the blood, which, you will have understood, is therefore a very bad idea.
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