LSD 'helps alcoholics to give up drinking'

[meow2u3]

One dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the 1960s.

A study, presented in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, looked at data from six trials and more than 500 patients.

It said there was a "significant beneficial effect" on alcohol abuse, which lasted several months after the drug was taken.

An expert said this was "as good as anything we've got".

LSD is a class A drug in the UK and is one of the most powerful hallucinogens ever identified. It appears to work by blocking a chemical in the brain, serotonin, which controls functions including perception, behaviour, hunger and mood.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17297714

OMG! Tripping your way to sobriety? What a concept!!

[Jackpine Radical]

1. There were studies done years ago with psilocybin

showing the same sort of results.

LSD was also used at the Penetanguishene Treatment Center in Canada for work with sex offenders. That research was also buried. There is now a class-action lawsuit ongoing for the victims.

This is from the lawyers' site:

In early 1967, Dr. Barker commenced a new series of experiments on the patients at Oak Ridge. The LSD Experiments were conducted as part of the Defence Disruption Therapy program but only on a select group of patients within the program were subjected to the experiment.
The men who were chosen for the experiment were escorted to Oak Ridge’s F Ward where the LSD was administered. There, in the Capsule, or Box, a group of naked men were confined, stripped naked, to an area where they would be in various states of drug induced “trips” that would sometimes last a number of days.
Patients were given massive doses of LSD either orally or injected intramuscularly and at times administered in combination with Methedrine (a drug of the amphetamine group. Also known as methamphetamine, it is used as a stimulant).

The LSD Experiments have been documented to result in various serious and long lasting symptoms, including but not limited to suicide (attempted and realized), homicide, paranoid psychoses, severe depression, acute schizophrenic reactions, extreme anxiety, and “flashbacks”.

[Ecumenist]

2. LOL!! Well, if it works, use it. Has to be better than drinking oneself into an early

grave or driving intoxicated and putting someone else there.

[unionworks]

3. No big suprise

From what I read, the Native American Peyote religion has helped many get out from under alcoholism And it is treated as a sacred ritual, not "tripping" for kicks.

[Walk away]

4. Those were the days!

No wonder I'm a teetotaller!

[CAPHAVOC]

7. Turn on Tune in Drop out...

Hmmmm sounds good.

[Evasporque]

5. Lobotomies help prevent over thinking....nt

[EOTE]

8. What is it that you're attempting to suggest? NT

[Arkana]

6. Well, it helps when you think the bottle is a cheeseburger with fangs.

[SOS]

9. Bill Wilson, founder of AA

used LSD on many occasions.
He was a supporter of LSD as an aid
to quit drinking back in the 1950s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_W.

[mailman82]

10. I have been sober for 26years

and 7 months! I know of Bill W. using LSD. I have only tried Lsd once while I was drinking. I will stick with AA it works for me. All my friends are Alchoholics and drug addicts.

[Junkdrawer]

14. Founder of AA is quite the exaggeration....

Primary author of the book Alcoholics Anonymous (aka The Big Book) is more like it.

AA is now and, really, always was a Group Conscience led thing, much to Bill's initial chagrin. Want to hear him come clean? Try this:

http://www.aaspeakers.org/Bill_W-from-Akron_OH-at-the_History_of_the_Big_Book

If I make it to Wednesday, it'll be 24 years....

[mailman82]

15. Congrats

it is Wednsday!

[Junkdrawer]

16. Thanks....

[Junkdrawer]

17. BTW: Isn't that a great talk?

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Whenever anyone tries to pass that AA-as-cult bullshit, I ask:

"Does THIS sound like the kind of talk a cult leader would give?"

Honesty - It's a wonderful thing.

[cat lady-in-w8ing]

11. Downside:

The walls start screaming at you and the tomatoes give you the finger!

[The Straight Story]

13. Reminds me of this:

[Dead_Parrot]

18. ROFL

That's a keeper.

[The Straight Story]

12. I scanned the title too quicky, thought it said Catholics not alcoholics

And no way in hell a good irish catholic is going to give up drinking