The Dangers of LSD-25: Educational Film (1967)

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Whilst there have been no documented human deaths from an LSD overdose, LSD may temporarily impair the ability to make sensible judgments and understand common dangers, thus making the user more susceptible to accidents and personal injury and cause signs of organic brain damage-impaired memory and attention span, mental confusion or difficulty with abstract thinking. However LSD is physiologically well tolerated and there is no evidence for long-lasting effects on the brain or other parts of the human organism.

There is some indication that LSD may trigger a dissociative fugue state in individuals who are taking certain classes of antidepressants such as lithium salts and tricyclics. In such a state, the user has an impulse to wander, and may not be aware of his or her actions, which can lead to physical injury. Anonymous anecdotal reports have attributed seizures and one death to the combination of LSD with lithium. SSRIs noticeably reduce LSD's subjective effects. MAOIs are also reported to reduce the effects of LSD.

LSD may trigger panic attacks or feelings of extreme anxiety, colloquially referred to as a "bad trip."

While publicly available documents indicate that the CIA and Department Of Defense have discontinued research into the use of LSD as a means of mind control, research from the 1960s suggests there exists evidence that both mentally ill and healthy people are more suggestible while under its influence.

There are some cases of LSD inducing a psychosis in people who appeared to be healthy before taking LSD. In most cases, the psychosis-like reaction is of short duration, but in other cases it may be chronic. It is difficult to determine whether LSD itself induces these reactions or if it triggers latent conditions that would have manifested themselves otherwise. The similarities of time course and outcomes between putatively LSD-precipitated and other psychoses suggest that the two types of syndromes are not different and that LSD may have been a nonspecific trigger.

Estimates of the prevalence of LSD-induced prolonged psychosis lasting over 48 hours have been made by surveying researchers and therapists who had administered LSD: * Cohen (1960) estimated 0.8 per 1,000 volunteers (the single case among approximately 1250 study volunteers was the identical twin of a schizophrenic and he recovered within 5 days) and 1.8 per 1,000 psychiatric patients (7 cases among approximately 3850 patients, of which 2 cases were "preschizophrenic" or had previous hallucinatory experience, 1 case had unknown outcome, 1 case had incomplete recovery, and 5 cases recovered within up to 6 months). * Malleson (1971) reported no cases of psychosis among experimental subjects (170 volunteers who received a total of 450 LSD sessions) and estimated 9 per 1,000 among psychiatric patients (37 cases among 4300 patients, of which 8 details are unknown, 10 appeared chronic, and 19 recovered completely within up to 3 months).

However, in neither survey study was it possible to compare the rate of lasting psychosis in these volunteers and patients receiving LSD with the rate of psychosis found in other groups of research volunteers or in other methods of psychiatric treatment (for example, those receiving placebo).

Cohen (1960) noted: "The hallucinogenic experience is so striking that many subsequent disturbances may be attributed to it without further justification. The highly suggestible or hysterical individual would tend to focus on his LSD experience to explain subsequent illness. Patients have complained to Abramson that their LSD exposure produced migraine headaches and attacks of influenza up to a year later. One Chinese girl became paraplegic and ascribed that catastrophe to LSD. It so happened that these people were all in the control group and had received nothing but tap water."

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[IamOsaa1995]

LSD really is a wonder. I don't even want to keep smoking pot because it seems like such a waste of time now. It really change my perception of things and deepened my senses.

[Nguli34689]

200 micrograms is twice the standard dose of LSD-25, even though Owsley acid was 250mcg., the initial dose under therapeutic conditions ranged from 25 -100 mcg. There were people who took over 1,500 mikes. We think dosages equal to and beyond that are a waste. Because this was filmed in the 1960's, I have to assume that the bootleg LSD was of unknown quality. Usually, it was 250 per tab of Blue Cheer, Red Owsley, from 1 - 4 way tabs. LSD is not a toy!

[Mercenary484]

@thefatcoolguy lol i dont care if you believe me

[workingonit85]

interesting

[thefatcoolguy]

@Mercenary484 ...bullshit

[Mercenary484]

my 2nd time doing acid i took 5 hits of really good shit within 40 mins with a friend who has done it 50 plus times. he couldnt handle it went running down the street, blocked trafic and got the cops called on him then tazed and they took him to to the hospital till he sobered up. meanwhile i walked 3 miles to a friends house to get help. this was at 4 am during a blizzard lol

[dyllanmilley]

Acid rocks

[Mercenary484]

@thefatcoolguy lol i dont care if you believe me

[workingonit85]

interesting

[thefatcoolguy]

@Mercenary484 ...bullshit