Please consider supporting the assertions above with peer reviewed studies. Also, please read all the literature and consider the whole picture before making sweeping claims.
According to two early studies,
LSD was of no benefit to treat schizophrenia source 2 and
LSD intensified it's symptoms. This evidence and
an earlier post above gives peer reviewed evidence in early studies that suggest LSD is associated with paranoid psychotic reactions in people in the short term and schizophrenia like symptoms in rodents in the medium term.
It would be unethical to test these hypotheses in humans today. LSD may trigger schizophreniform mental illness in the mentally fragile, worsen it or play role in conditioning it. Although the quoted studies are early, it is generally accepted by psychiatrists that it is not recommended to treat a schizophrenic with LSD.
I don't hate LSD. After reading many journal articles on it, the early picture on the whole is somewhat sobering and concerning. It seems unlikely any benefits of LSD can't overcome its mental health risks as a medicine, from threshold doses up.
"2 early studies"? Well, we'd not have gotten to the moon. Unethical, I do not fully get, as these studies exist. These threads by definition aren't for posting the every detail of "peer reviewed" studies, but I think there's evidence it's been duly considered, well considered by the pros on the issue. The idea of "bad science" is well picked apart. They did excellent work in the 50's-60's, & didn't understand even the role of serotonin until LSD. Abstracts, & commentary are how to post here; not entire research archives. You clearly disagree with the well reported, well supported studies of 50's LSD (& Psilocybin for that matter) studies changing patterns of alcoholism. They like-wise in correct set & setting, these do help other mental illness yet of course not in any set & setting. It was good science by what can by any means show as having profound effects in changing mental behavior of chronic alcoholics of near 80%? Correct me.
Yes, there are new medicines, this is progress but LSD has been shown as low toxicity & other classic substances are being researched now with more excellent results being published as we post. Yes, treating schizophrenia is a minefield but too much hope is there, in modern research to put the ‘Nixon’ blinders on. Should I quote the results of science of chemo? The fact is again, not every medicine, is for everyone but psychedelics have been proven widely safe when proper precautions are observed: often safer than many other medicines, such as for PTSD for example as existing therapies, such as typical anti-depressants, like Paxil, too often end in suicide & are not even meant as cures. This hearkens back to the alcohol studies. Psychedelics are as dangerous as any mal-prescribed medicine with improper supervision. Like many medicines, things can go bad under the best intent, presentation & seeming proper usage.
I thank the Rick Doblin's among many modern age scientists for the breadth of understanding to get the difference between risk, & reward & how to manage these. Cancer treatments are not safe....but when at Hopkins, as they prepare people carefully for the experience of psychedelics, they can deal with life end issues, at life's end, with the patients at the end of life. They come out feeling alive & able to live the rest of their life's, with joy. The risk rates are small in these studies. Why?
I believe that had you been the FDA & DEA these research studies would still be locked up, which they're not, (although you claim you do not hate LSD, your position doesn't look this way at all when it comes to progressing with these types of approaches) or at best pre-determined as definitively not worth pursuing because they are inherently unsafe.
My concern is, that you don't list the journals you've derived your conclusions from, that show risk of harm is simply too great, & that these seem extremely tainted with fear & are not balanced about this topic. No-one who is worth their salt about psychedelic therapies say it's simply safe & there's no risk, but the risks can be managed, yet only if research happens. It is.
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