Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
How is the drug taken?
Medical Uses:
- Pills/Capsules
- Liquid form: liquid is soaked into blotting paper that is often imprinted with cartoon characters.
Medical Uses:
- Treatment of alcoholism/addiction
- Therapeutic effects for patients with life-threatening diseases
- Psychotherapy
- LSD is also being tested to see if it can treat the following:
- Cluster headaches, depression, obsessive compulsion disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Cluster headaches, depression, obsessive compulsion disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Short Term Effects of Using the Drug:
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Long Term Effects of Using the Drug:
- Hyperthermia, or overheating.
- Cardiovascular collapse, or sudden heart failure.
- Death or severe injury due to impaired judgement
- Persistent psychosis
- a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
- Recurrent hallucinations – even after you’ve stopped taking the dru
Interesting Facts:
- LSD helped cure a holocaust survivor from Auschwitz’s PTSD and also helped him to sleep for the first time in 30 years without any nightmare.
- LSD is made from lysergic acid, which is presently one of the most powerful mood-altering chemicals.
- As compared to most drugs which take a minimum of a gram or two to be effective, LSD just takes a 100-200 million-th of a gram to send a person off on a deep trip to euphoria and hallucinations which may last up to 12 hours.
Stories of LSD:
"After taking the acid, I imagined that we had driven head-on into an eighteen-wheeler and were killed. I could hear the screeching metal, then a dark and evil quiet. I was terrified at this point, I actually thought we were dead....For a year I wouldn’t go into any cemetery because I was terrified I would find my own grave.”
“At 13 years of age I took my first drink and soon after was introduced to marijuana. Then LSD quickly fell into my hands and I became addicted, eating it like candy.
“One night during one of my binges I blacked out and awoke with blood all over my face and vomit coming out of my mouth. By some miracle I pulled myself awake and cleaned myself up. I got into the car, shaking, drove to my parent’s house. I climbed into bed with my mom and cried.
“By the age of 21, I checked into my first rehab.”