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New experiments have a few researchers believing that this trippy drug could become a pharmaceutical of the future. LSD helps to treat alcoholism. DEA/Science Faction/Corbis An analysis of old studies suggests LSD may have a role to play in treating alcoholism.
The powerful hallucinogen LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) has potential as a treatment for alcoholism, according to a retrospective analysis of studies published in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The study1, by neuroscientist Teri Krebs and clinical psychologist Pål-Ørjan Johansen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, is the first-ever quantitative meta-analysis of LSD–alcoholism clinical trials.
The researchers sifted through thousands of records to collect data from randomized, double-blind trials that compared one dose of LSD to a placebo. Why LSD Should Be Legalized - E.J. Mishan.