May is Mental Health Awareness month in the US, but if you have a loved one living with dementia, you are acutely aware that mental health is largely ignored every day. In this episode, we share a personal story of how the US Health System fails peo…
May is Mental Health Awareness month in the US, but if you have a loved one living with dementia, you are acutely aware that mental health is largely ignored every day. In this episode, we share a personal story of how the US Health System fails people living with dementia.
My mom’s old friend, “Evelyn”, has been experiencing increased anxiety and confusion since the coronavirus pandemic shut down the world. Evelyn is like many people, but she is living with an underlying mental health condition that is destroying at least two parts of her brain. Evelyn is living with Alzheimer’s Disease, but on the outside she looks “normal.” This is one of the hardest aspects of mental illnesses.
Single as long as I’ve known her, Evelyn was on track to move to Assisted Living for a while, but the pandemic accelerated that timeline. Have a listen to this episode and find out how, working with her out-of-state family, we helped get Evelyn to safety, against all odds. And how her story continues...
In this episode we reference this study:
Study that showed that CBD helps morphine work better: “Cannabidiol enhances morphine anti-noci-ception, diminishes N M D A -mediated seizures and reduces stroke damage via the sigma 1 receptor” Published in the journal Molecular Brain online in September 2018.
Despite cannabis medicine being legal in some form in more than 2/3rds of U.S. States, in order for people living with dementia to get some relief today, we need to get cannabis de-scheduled, and open up the Schedule I of Drugs for research.
Contact your Senators, Representatives and the President to let them know that you want to de-schedule cannabis and open up the Schedule I for research at the very least.
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