Researchers: Time to re-examine LSD as treatment for alcoholism

[JackLuis]

What!

I think I need a drink.

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Neuroscientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have called for research on LSD as a possible treatment for alcoholism to continue.

“There has long been a need for better treatments for addiction,” Teri Krebs and Pål-Ørjan Johansen said after reviewing previous LSD research. “We think it is time to look at the use of psychedelics in treating various conditions.”

The researchers interviewed 15 wives of men who had received LSD-assisted treatment and compared them to 11 wives of men who had received the same treatment without LSD. For those who received LSD-assisted treatment, “over 60% were rated not only more responsible, truthful, dependable, and less wasting of money, but as more talkative and understanding, less critical of others, less resentful, changeable, or moody, as well as more accepting of themselves.”

Both groups of wives reported that the initial effects of the treatment their husbands received greatly diminished after a period of six months, suggesting that the improvements from both types of therapy were temporary. However, “at the six-month follow-up the LSD husbands still showed a marked advantage over the comparison group husbands,” according to Sarett and her colleagues.

“But when we combine studies that had sound methodology, the results are unambiguous. We can therefore safely conclude that a single dose of LSD had a positive treatment effect that lasted at least six months.”

Well maybe a tab?

 

[sr71plt]

I hear that alcohol is a treatment for LSD addiction too.

 

[TxRad]

Do
not
take
the
blue
acid
when
drinking
Budweiser
red.
Everyone
knows
that.
Right?

 

[Angellica1612]

Do
not
take
the
blue
acid
when
drinking
Budweiser
red.
Everyone
knows
that.
Right?

I didn't. Why not? What will happen? I'm curious!

 

[oggbashan]

I didn't. Why not? What will happen? I'm curious!

You'll see colours.

 

[haomen]

I look forward to reading more from the writing collaboration of habu and Sabb, who I behttp://www.filii.info/g.giflieve make an important contribution to gay literature.

 

[TxRad]

You'll see colours.

Are those anything like colors?

 

[Dianthus]

Are those anything like colors?

They are very similar. The hues are deeper/brighter with the 'u'.

 

[3113]

"“over 60% were rated not only more responsible, truthful, dependable, and less wasting of money, but as more talkative and understanding, less critical of others, less resentful, changeable, or moody, as well as more accepting of themselves.”

If the therapy can do this, why are we keeping it exclusive to alcoholics?

Acid trip for everyone!

 

[3113]

You'll see colours.

And what colors did you see, Og? Come on, 'fess up. What was your best acid trip like?

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Perhaps we should start a "What was your first hallucination like?" thread. I always ask my students about theirs, but they mostly tell me they haven't had any. Imagine that! And after all we did in the 60s for future generations! Where did we go wrong?

 

[oggbashan]

And what colors did you see, Og? Come on, 'fess up. What was your best acid trip like?

Like most politicians, I wouldn't admit to taking acid, if I had. I tried Bud. I didn't, and don't like it.

The 1960s in Swinging London? Unlike many of my contemporaries I remember the 1960s. Perhaps that is because my preferred stimulant was single-malt whisky.

When I couldn't afford single-malt, I bought rough cider by the gallon from a long-gone cider maker in rural Kent. His so-called vintage cider was an illegally distilled version of Calvados.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Like most politicians, I wouldn't admit to taking acid, if I had. I tried Bud. I didn't, and don't like it.

The 1960s in Swinging London? Unlike many of my contemporaries I remember the 1960s. Perhaps that is because my preferred stimulant was single-malt whisky.

When I couldn't afford single-malt, I bought rough cider by the gallon from a long-gone cider maker in rural Kent. His so-called vintage cider was an illegally distilled version of Calvados.

I remember the 60s, too, Og. They happened pretty much between Sputnik and Saigon. Yes. Oh, and there was Sarah, the tall blond in the East Village who answered the door naked and cracked an amyl nitrate ampoule under my nose and said "take a deep breath," and I did, and fell down, laughing, in the doorway, and she dragged me inside by my legs and I woke up the next day (or was it the day after that?) naked, entangled with Sarah and a dozen other naked people whose names I didn't know and still don't know, but I remember Sarah, though what we might have done is there somewhere in a pleasurable haze of imagination but not in any fixed long-term memory...except that it was in the 60s, too, sometime between Sputnik and Saigon.

 

[JackLuis]

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