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LSD: A Far Out Treatment for Alcoholism?

Erika Dyck, a Canadian history of medicine professor, has unearthed research from the 1950s and 1960s showing the results of a group of Canadian psychologists' experiments using the drug LSD to treat alcoholism.

Noting that the symptoms of delirium tremens, a condition which for many alcoholics marked "hitting rock bottom," resembled those induced by LSD, the experimental group reasoned that the drug might be able to create similar effects in a controlled context.

The doctors found that more than half of their patients were able to stay sober for at least 18 months. Following up with someof these patients, Dyck found that many had never touched another drop and remained loyal to the doctors who had treated them forty years earlier.


ABSTRACT: 'Hitting Highs at Rock Bottom': LSD Treatment for Alcoholism, 1950-1970

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