Breakthrough Trips: Psychedelics are a mental game changer

Twenty-seven-year-old Mitchell Maldonado was diagnosed with chronic depression over a decade ago. Since then, doctors have prescribed him over 25 psychiatric medications—he’s currently on three. And he’s seen more therapists than he can count. The drugs failed to heal...

Ketamine center offers psychedelic treatment

CHICO — Ketamine was once seen by the mainstream public as only an anesthetic for humans and animals. Now after years of studies, ketamine is being used to treat depression in some cases — most recently in Chico. The Phoenix Nest Community Project only recently...

Phoenix Nest Community Project

  The last four years have not been easy on the Northstate. Between a dam failure and ensuing flood, the most deadly and destructive wildfire in California history, additional yearly wildfires, and finally a worldwide pandemic that dramatically changed life as we know...