Posted on 03/10/2012 6:23:53 PM PST by AnTiw1
There’s a case for legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes, but what about LSD? A new report released Friday suggests LSD can be used to treat alcoholism.
LSD can prevent patients from relapsing during alcohol abuse treatment, researchers from Norwegian University of Science and Technology found.
“A single dose of LSD has a significant beneficial effect on alcohol misuse,” the researchers wrote.
The study was published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
“LSD worked in an entirely different way than any current psychiatric drugs,” Teri Krebs, researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. “Many patients said they had gained a new appreciation for their alcohol problem and new motivation to address it.”
The study involved 536 alcoholics. Two-thirds of the participants were given LSD. 59 percent of those given LSD did not relapse, compared to the 38 percent of those who were not given the drug.
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LSD is a hallucinogenic drug. After receiving a dose of LSD, some participants experienced anxiety and confusion, the researchers reported.
“Overall there is a big effect, show me another treatment with results as good; we’ve missed a trick here... This is probably as good as anything we’ve got [for treating alcoholism].”
I said that once in reply to somebody on here and offense was had, so I eschewed the traditional greeting.
What’s really freaky is the bass player looks like J Kerry, and the guitarist looks like GWB.
I love your post and agree with you 100%. My BB and 12&12 is all I need.
The AA recovery program is the best “therapy” program for long term sobriety and continued personal and spiritual growth.
Having said that, there frequently are psychiatric medical conditions that underly addiction that warrant appropriate treatment by a professional who understands addiction also.
In the history of AA’s founding it can be noted that repeatedly the founders, the physcian and Bill Wilson were strong advocates of working closely with the medical community. Bill Wilson had a serious clinical depression and at the time we did not have the medications to treat that which we have today.
There is a vast difference between accepting the reality of medical conditions and seeking treatment or being a life=long “victim”. Both the Aa program and the medical interventions require responsibility for self-care.
Congratulations that you were one of those whom the AA program alone was sufficient. There are those who need additional treatment, not in lieu of, a strong recovery program, The founders of AA would be the first to embrace additional help.
“Hey.... I learned that if I started taking Morphine, I wouldn’t have to do Opium anymore!” hehehe
I like the walls very much.
I could swear I just saw Billy Gibbons officiating a wedding on TV.
I dunno. It seems to fit the thread.
Plays a mighty fine bass too.
And heroin cures morphine addiction! You’re set!
Far Out, Man!!
It may, or it freaking may not.
Damn. I’m havin’ flashbacks just looking at that picture!
No argument with your comments. The medical treatment for depression is depression meds. The medical treatment for alcoholism is total abstinence.
Both benefit from support groups. Dual diagnosis is a sub-discipline within psychology.
FWIW here at FR, I spent twelve years quasi-professionally studying the healing and transformative potential of altered states of consciousness, including three years studying with Stan Grof.
Low dose LSD as a party drug, or high dose LSD done merely to “get high” is a waste of time. High dose LSD in the proper set and setting, just like Ayahuasca, Ibogaine, and a few other related substances, are the real deal. Been there and done that - hundreds of times - and if you haven’t you sadly have no idea what you’re talking about.
I was with a large group of people in a small park in NYC doing LSD when a heavy fog moved in. People were arguing if it was really fog or the LSD. We became convinced that people could’nt see us so people started taking their clothes off and having sex all over the place. There was a heavy frisbee with lights flying all around and was actually dangerous.Then someone was burning all the clothes. Finally I ended up going home with just the radio held in front of my waist and a bandana tied like a bandit because the fog made it difficult to breathe.
lol — it’s the paper towel tube that really makes that story.
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