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LSD May Help Cure Alcoholism, Study Says
AllMediaNY ^ | March 10, 2012 | Vania Andre

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].”


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KEYWORDS: alcoholism; lsd; napl
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To: dfwgator

I said that once in reply to somebody on here and offense was had, so I eschewed the traditional greeting.


101 posted on 03/10/2012 8:22:37 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: AnTiw1
A hallucinogenic herb called Ibogaine is supposed to cure addiction to alcohol/crack/heroine/cocaine/meth after one use. Ibogaine is illegal in the US. It is not popular as a recreational drug, because it does not give a pleasant trip. It is used by some native Africans for a rite of passage for boys entering manhood.
102 posted on 03/10/2012 8:26:42 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: cripplecreek

What’s really freaky is the bass player looks like J Kerry, and the guitarist looks like GWB.


103 posted on 03/10/2012 8:32:11 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Mohammedan law every woman must belong to a man will delay the end of slavery until Islam has ceased)
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To: truth_seeker

I love your post and agree with you 100%. My BB and 12&12 is all I need.


104 posted on 03/10/2012 8:36:51 PM PST by peggybac
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To: UnwashedPeasant
I developed a complete immunity to Ibocaine powder while visiting Australia.
105 posted on 03/10/2012 8:39:28 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: truth_seeker

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.


106 posted on 03/10/2012 8:41:03 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (NEWT in 2012)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“Hey.... I learned that if I started taking Morphine, I wouldn’t have to do Opium anymore!” hehehe


107 posted on 03/10/2012 8:41:21 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: bigheadfred

I like the walls very much.


108 posted on 03/10/2012 8:47:19 PM PST by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: bigheadfred

I could swear I just saw Billy Gibbons officiating a wedding on TV.

I dunno. It seems to fit the thread.


109 posted on 03/10/2012 8:49:09 PM PST by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Plays a mighty fine bass too.


110 posted on 03/10/2012 9:18:06 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: AnTiw1
remember what the dormouse said ...
111 posted on 03/10/2012 9:19:42 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Limbaugh: Tim Tebow miracle: "He had atheists praying to God that he would lose.")
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To: KoRn

And heroin cures morphine addiction! You’re set!


112 posted on 03/10/2012 9:19:54 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: AnTiw1

Far Out, Man!!


113 posted on 03/10/2012 9:36:43 PM PST by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: Slings and Arrows

It may, or it freaking may not.


114 posted on 03/10/2012 9:44:55 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Cometh the hour, cometh the man. NEWT GINGRICH 2012)
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To: cripplecreek

Damn. I’m havin’ flashbacks just looking at that picture!


115 posted on 03/10/2012 9:45:47 PM PST by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

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.


116 posted on 03/10/2012 9:47:08 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: AnTiw1

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.


117 posted on 03/10/2012 9:55:28 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: bmwcyle

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.


118 posted on 03/10/2012 10:00:19 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Cometh the hour, cometh the man. NEWT GINGRICH 2012)
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To: RegulatorCountry

lol — it’s the paper towel tube that really makes that story.


119 posted on 03/10/2012 10:06:21 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: AnTiw1
I don't know anything about LSD and alcoholism, but I want to put in my .02 for the Sinclair Method, which uses the drug naltrexone (easily available from Canada, or from your own sympathetic doctor) to curb the longing for alcohol (over a period of time -- anywhere from weeks to months). Someone close to me has been taking naltrexone for over a year now, following the Sinclair Method, and it's been night and day. He went from binge-drinking two to three times a week, to drinking once every two or three weeks. I think it's only a matter of time until he quits altogether. If you or someone close to you wants to quit, but can't quite do it, check out the Sinclair Method.

"Naltrexone! For the Stubborn Drunk in Your Life...."

120 posted on 03/10/2012 10:08:58 PM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (If you back Newt . . . then SEND HIM MONEY!! "Be Breitbart, Baby!")
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