LSD: cure to alcoholism ! <g>

[Kanada Kev]

http://www.dailygut.com/?i=1273

PROPER RESEARCH: MIND-QUAKING LSD CURES ALCOHOLISM. FACT

Respected doctors in the scientific and medical community are discussing the merits of prescribing acid - yes, lysergic acid diethylamide aka LSD - to cure alcoholics. The drug of choice for hippies and college kids of the 60's and 70's that caused hallucinations or "tripping," was, of course, outlawed. It may have been a kneejerk reaction.

Erika Dyck, an assistant professor at the University of Alberta, Canada, raised the issue after studying a series of LSD tests of alcohol-addicted patients carried out in the 1960s in Saskatchewan. She discovered that two-thirds of the alcoholics stopped drinking for at least 18 months after receiving one dose of LSD, compared to 25 percent who stopped after group therapy, and 12 percent after individual therapy.

According to Dyck, even Alcoholics Anonymous endorses the LSD research. Alcoholics Anonymous "felt that one of the major obstacles to joining Alcoholics Anonymous was 'Step 2, admitting that there is a higher power.'" Even the co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous, Dyck said, "felt that LSD was the first intervention that helped many people to reach this step."

Edited October 17, 2006 by Guest