Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2015 17:07:34 GMT -6
Well well well...
After four decades without any published scientific information on LSD, a new study has reopened the door for the psychedelic drug. Psychiatrists in Santa Cruz, California published results from the first controlled medical trial of LSD in over 40 years, highlighting potential medical benefits.
Interesting. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is back in the news with new scientific studies. Anyone remembering how it went in the sixties and seventies already know that the mind altering drug does have some effects on the mind, such as time being felt differently along with spiritual awakenings.
The Doors had their very name chosen after that very concept, as LSD did open a psychedelic door.
But now studies are being done, similar to cannabis, to find how the drug may be able to help with some mental illnesses. After all, it had been used in the past in psychoanalysis...
t was used very successfully for ten years in psychoanalysis adding that the drug was misused by the Counterculture of the 1960s, and then criticized unfairly by the political establishment of the day.
Albert Hoffman
Albert Hoffman
The study was done with 12 terminally ill patients. 8 were selected to get LSD and the remaining 4 were given placebos. The main factor is that, after a year, the LSD patients had a significant decrease in their anxiety levels while the remaining 4 had the opposite effect, an acute increase in anxiety.
Doblin said LSD-assisted therapy is a special experience, both cathartic and mystical. He believes it causes a transcendence of time and space that helps patients focus on the present and dealing with their issues.
“Something is fundamentally changed by successful LSD-assisted psychotherapy,” he said. “That’s not to say it works in everybody, but there can be permanent changes in people’s attitudes and in their brains.”
“Something is fundamentally changed by successful LSD-assisted psychotherapy,” he said. “That’s not to say it works in everybody, but there can be permanent changes in people’s attitudes and in their brains.”
The study was made by a scientific team that acts as a non profit organization and they specialize in most drugs out there, LSD, marijuana and so on.
Off topic a bit but even the mushrooms and ecstasy seem to have an effect..medically speaking...
Back in 2011, it was suggested that magic mushrooms can treat depression, anxiety and addiction, and the findings were confirmed in 2012. Just a few months ago, in 2014, a new study showed that magic mushrooms can be used to quit smoking, while ecstasy was used to deal with PTSD where conventional methods failed. All in all, psychedelic drugs seem to open doors which were previously closed in therapy. Hopefully, they can be used successfully.
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Scientific Original Paper
I fully understand that the drugs need to be given in a restricted environment and with supervision but this whole article made me think out of the box for a moment.
So now I'm curious, what do YOU think of all of this?
