The world's most painful condition demands urgent action

Help us accelerate access to psychedelic therapies for "suicide headaches"

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Studies, surveys, and case reports of psychedelics for cluster headache

About cluster headache

Cluster headache ("suicide headache") is often considered the most painful medical condition. Patients rate it as significantly more painful than childbirth, kidney stones, gunshot wounds, and bone fractures. Standard painkillers don't help.

Tension Headache: 2.5/10

Mild to moderate dull, aching pain that feels like a tight band around the head. Usually manageable with over-the-counter pain relievers.

Even in wealthy nations with advanced healthcare, hundreds of thousands still experience torture-like suffering every year. About 50% of all patients have contemplated suicide. At the same time, global funding for cluster headache is virtually nonexistent. This crisis cannot go on any longer.

"Cluster headaches is the worst pain I've ever had in my life. I've never felt anything worse, and I mean including being terminally ill and breaking bones and just so many other really severe painful conditions. But cluster headaches is in a category by itself. I've never felt anything like it. It's such severe pain, it's literally violent screaming pain."
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John Fletcher, cluster headache patient and advocate headshot
John Fletcher, cluster headache patient and advocate
"Imagine that someone is stabbing a knife in your eye and turning it for hours. Imagine the worst pain. Imagine a daily torture, gratuitous, incomprehensible. Imagine yourself suffering alone, terribly. Imagine being a prisoner in a straitjacket of suffering... Imagine the desire to finish, with pain, and the desire to finish... with yourself."
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Thomas, cluster headache patient

Psychedelics save lives

Psychedelics like psilocybin, LSD, and DMT have shown promise in treating cluster headache pain, in some cases with 70–80% of surveyed users reporting significant relief. Some patients even achieve complete remission.

Often, low, sub-hallucinogenic doses are more than enough to prevent clusters or stop attacks acutely. Patients could self-medicate safely and with minimal side effects.

However, only a tiny minority of patients have access to these life-saving treatments. Given the severity of the pain, the situation is analogous to refusing anesthesia to patients during surgery. This is absolutely unacceptable.

We need your help to accelerate access to psychedelic therapies.

Treating Cluster Headaches with Psychedelics

DMT for Cluster Headaches: Aborting and Preventing Extreme Pain with Tryptamines and Other Methods

"One inhalation [of DMT] will end the attack for most people. Everybody is reporting the exact same thing. […] It could end that attack in less than a minute. […] You can take one inhalation, you can wait 30 seconds, and if that cluster is not gone completely, then you know it's time to take another inhalation. You don't have to wait 2h into a psilocybin trip."
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Bob Wold, cluster headache patient and advocate headshot
Bob Wold, cluster headache patient and advocate
"I had 12 attacks per day and I was suffering from it. I did 3 sessions [of psilocybin and ketamine] in total. My attacks completely stopped for one and a half years now."
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Cluster headache patient

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Step 2

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