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The Strange Way LSD Both Mimics Psychosis and Improves Mental Health

By Carolyn Gregoire — 2016

The drug can cause a temporary psychosis-like state, but can also lead to improved well-being.

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Welcome to the Trip of Your Life: The Rise of Underground LSD Guides

Some Americans searching for alternative paths to healing have turned to psychedelics. But how does one forge a career as a guide when the substances are illegal?

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Carey Dunne
2018
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Psychedelics Could Trigger a ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Mental Health Care

A new review of studies finds that LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA hold potential for treating mental illness.

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Carolyn Gregoire
2015
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A History of Psychedelics

Originating in the 1960s, as a thriving part of the counterculture havens of San Francisco and New York, psychedelics have long remained immersed in the recesses of the shadow economy.

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Seth Ferranti
2016
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Study Shows How LSD Interferes with Brain's Signaling

Scans of volunteers who took acid shows it disrupts information pathways in brain.

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Ian Sample
2019
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What to Know About LSD Use

LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide, is a long-lasting psychoactive drug that distorts and alters perceptions and sensations. In uncontrolled situations, LSD is one of the most potent mood-altering drugs available.

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Buddy T
2020
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Therapeutic Use of LSD in Psychiatry: A Systematic Review of Randomized-Controlled Clinical Trials

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was studied from the 1950s to the 1970s to evaluate behavioral and personality changes, as well as remission of psychiatric symptoms in various disorders.

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Juan José Fuentes, Francina Fonseca, Matilde Elices, Magí Farré and Marta Torrens
2020
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Can LSD Help Struggling People Make Friends? Why a New Study Is So Promising

Embraced then vilified, the drug lysergic acid diethylamide is on a path toward redemption. While LSD remains a legally restricted psychoactive substance, scientists are pursuing its therapeutic potential — continuing a conversation that began in the 1950s.

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Sarah Sloat
2021
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The World's First-Ever Acid Trip Actually Kinda Sucked

Acid was at the start of its own long strange trip: from research chemical to psychiatric wonder drug, brainwashing tool to agent of ego-dissolution, cosmic insight and cultural revolution.

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Mike Jay
2018
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Do You Know the History of Acid or LSD?

Believing that lysergic acid had potential use in neurology and psychiatry, he proceeded with animal experimentation and further human studies.

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Emily Swaim
2020
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"Apparently Useless": The Accidental Discovery of LSD

After the drug was dismissed by the pharmaceutical company that developed it, a researcher started experimenting on himself with it. Powerful hallucinations ensued.

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Tom Shroder
2014
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