Can MDMA develop missing empathic capability in narcissists?


‘A Seattle psychiatrist is trying to treat narcissism with MDMA. Dr. Alexa Albert has launched the first-ever clinical trial using everyone’s favorite club drug to treat personality disorders. As reported in The Microdose newsletter, she’s betting that MDMA’s empathy-inducing properties might help these self-obsessed specimens actually care about other humans.…’ Ellsworth Toohey via Boing Boing

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R.I.P. Sly Stone, 82

 

Maestro of a Multifaceted Hitmaking Band


‘Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s.…’ Joe Coscarelli via The New York Times

1970. Seated, from left: Greg Errico, Sly Stone and Larry Graham. Standing, from left: Cynthia Robinson, Freddie Stone, Rose Stone and Jerry Martini.

 

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