Cancer Anxiety Study

Summary:

The story of Pamela Sakuda, a stage 4 cancer patient who was prescribed psychedelic drugs to relieve her "end of life anxiety."

Website:

http://www.hearingvoices.com, www.canceranxietystudy.org

Additional Credits and Funding:

Support for this piece comes from the public radio website Hearing Voices.com, from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Timely on:

March: Women's Month

Tones:

Intimate, Provocative, Sound Rich

Language:

English

Description:

Dr. Charles Grob, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., is studying the efficacy of psilocybin in relieving "end of life anxiety" in stage four cancer patients. Psilocybin is one of the active ingredients in psychedelic mushrooms. More information at canceranxietystudy.org .

Pamela Sakuda is a stage four cancer patient who participated in the study. She tells the story of her cancer and how this experimental treatment helped her.

Also interviewed is Norbert Letzinger, Pamela's husband.

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