Psychedelic Treatment

Annie Levy

"Magic mushrooms" bring to mind hippie trips in the 60's. But these days, doctors are doing human trials with the active ingredient in the mushrooms, psilocybin. Doctors think psilocybin can ease anxiety caused by a terminal illness.

Annie Levy thought she was done with cancer, but when it came back in 2006, it was terminal. Annie was filled with thoughts of death, so she started looking into alternative treatments. She discovered the work being done with"magic mushrooms."

Annie was treated under the care of a psychiatrist researching the effects of psychoactive drugs on advanced-stage cancer patients. She talks to guest host Aaron Henkin about how the treatment changed her view of her own mortality.

• Read a study about the treatment Annie used
• Check out the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies' LSD and psilocybin research
• Read about a study conducted at Johns Hopkins
  

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Bad Wiring

Debbie Crawford testifying

Debbie Crawford recently saw a television report about soldiers in Iraq being electrocuted in the shower. So far, 16 American troops have died in accidental electrocutions there. Debbie worked as an electrician for a contractor in Baghdad from 2004 to 2006. She recently testified before Congress, stating that the company for which she worked was reckless in its disregard of safety standards - and that when she tried to point out electrical hazards, she was shut down.

Debbie talks with guest host Aaron Henkin about what she saw in Iraq and what made her speak out.

• Check out Debbie's blog - Ms. Sparky
• See more photos of Debbie in Iraq and Antarctica, where she worked as an electrician
• Read KBR's statements regarding the electrocution deaths in Iraq
  

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Grizzly Bear Attack

Joe Willliams - see him with Don Dayton, the park ranger who rescued him >>

Recent reports out of Alaska and elsewhere have put bear attacks back in the news.

Joe Williams survived a near-fatal attack by a bear in 1959. It was his first day on the job at Montana's Glacier National Park. He was taking a walk in the mountains with a friend when he was attacked by a grizzly sow. His friend fled but later returned with a park ranger who saved Joe's life.

Joe tells Dick Gordon what it was like to go through the attack and what the event has come to mean to him in the years since.

Heard in this story: Teddy Bears' Picnic by David Grisman & Jerry Garcia for the album Not for Kids Only

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