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Eric L. Garland @drericgarland.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Hiring a Postdoc at UC San Diego to assist with clinical trials and neuroscience of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy for addiction. Clinical psychology or psychiatry training preferred. Postdoc will provide psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions, analyze data, and write papers. Competitive salary! DM me.

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Eric L. Garland @drericgarland.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Mental health clinicians 🡢 Discover how mindfulness-based therapies can enhance treatment and recovery from addictions. Join me and other expert faculty, for a 5-week webinar series. Mindfulness Approaches for Addictions Care. Jan 9 – Feb 13, 12-1:30pm ET. cha-ce.thinkific.com/courses/maac

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Mindfulness Approaches for Addictions Care

An overview of the science and experience of using contemplative practice to treat addictive disorders

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Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion @ucsdcompassion.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Tune in this Sun. 9/7, at 9pm ET: @ucsdcompassion.bsky.social Endowed Professor @drericgarland.bsky.social will be on @cnn.com 'Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: It Doesn’t Have to Hurt.’ In the segment, Gupta explores #meditation practices that reduce pain—incl. those in Dr. Garland’s novel MORE therapy.

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Eric L. Garland @drericgarland.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Meditation is a drug-free way to reduce pain! Watch me guide ⁦‪@drsanjaygupta‬⁩ use mindfulness meditation to reduce pain from a 119 degree metal probe on his arm! Sanjay was a star (of course) and dropped his pain from about a 7 (out of 10) to a 3. www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/h...

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How meditation could be a drug-free method for easing pain | CNN

CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores how meditation, a practice involving calmness and focus, can reduce pain intensity and unpleasantness. Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: It Doesn’t Have to Hurt.” at 9 p...

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Eric L. Garland @drericgarland.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I'm excited to tell you about a new book called "It doesn't have to Hurt." Neurosurgeon and CNN reporter, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, spent three years doing the deep dive into pain. I think this book will change the way you think about pain, its relationship to the brain, and surprising ways to treat it.

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Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion @ucsdcompassion.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

New Podcast 🎧: Should You 'Lean Into' Your #ChronicPain to Relieve It? Tune into @cnn.com Dr. Sanjay Gupta's new episode of #ChasingLife to hear @ucsdcompassion.bsky.social Endowed Professor @drericgarland.bsky.social explain how #meditation can be as effective as #opioids in treating #chronicpain.

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Should You ‘Lean Into’ Your Chronic Pain to Relieve It?

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Eric L. Garland @drericgarland.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Strengthening recovery from chronic pain and opioid use: I was recently interviewed by Dr Sanjay Gupta on CNN about my work on Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE). Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/5IWA...

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Should You ‘Lean Into’ Your Chronic Pain to Relieve It?

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Eric L. Garland @drericgarland.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I’m looking for a postdoc to join me at UCSD, ideally a clinical psychologist PhD who can deliver mindfulness interventions as well as write papers and do analyses. I have one of the world’s largest psychophysiology datasets of opioid misuse, OUD, & chronic pain. Competitive salary. DM or email.

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Eric L. Garland @drericgarland.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I’m looking for a postdoc to help me study mindfulness and psychedelics at @UCSDHealth! Preferred: Psychology PhDs with experience delivering mindfulness to patients, as well as writing and statistical skills. But I’m open to other disciplines. Competitive salary. DM or email me!

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Eric L. Garland @drericgarland.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I'm looking for a postdoc to join me at UCSD ONEMIND (Optimized Neuroscience-Enhanced Mindfulness Intervention Design) in the Dept of Psychiatry. I'm looking for a clinical psych PhD with experience treating addiction and pain who is interested in delivering mindfulness for NIH-funded trials.

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Eric L. Garland @drericgarland.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I’m excited to announce that our new paper was published in @jama.com Psychiatry ! Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) normalizes brain markers of positive emotion dysregulation in opioid use disorder.

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Eric L. Garland @drericgarland.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Hey friends and colleagues, I am new here on Bluesky! As a first post, I'd like to share my new Nature Mental Health commentary with you. It's a little thought piece about translating science into solutions to address the opioid crisis. Hope you enjoy! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Recovering wellbeing from the diseases of despair: integrating neuroscience, evidence-based practice and policy to heal the opioid crisis

Nature Mental Health - Developing a robust approach to mitigating the current opioid crisis in the USA will require translating novel evidence-based, neuroscience-informed treatments into clinical...

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