Psychedelic Pharmacology
neurontic | October 13, 2006Those who read "Psychedelic Pharmacology" may be interested to learn that Dr. Erika Dyck, a medical professor at the University of Alberta, is trumpeting the benefits of using LSD as a treatment for alcoholism. After surveying past research, Dyck found there was ample evidence to support the idea that "tripping" helps addicts achieve the level of emotional catharsis required to give up the drink.
She interviewed a handful of reformed alcoholics who used acid to kick the habit some 40 years ago and reported:
The LSD experience appeared to allow the patients to go through a spiritual journey…
neurontic | March 1, 2006Clarence Darrow famously said: "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." It's likely that Dr. John Halpern experienced a similar kind of schadenfreude on hearing of Timothy Leary's death in 1996.
For those of you too young to remember him as anything other than Uma Thurman's godfather, Leary was a renowned academic who launched the now infamous Harvard Psilocybin Project. The research project, which Leary developed in partnership with Richard Alpert (later known as Ram Dass), used psychedelics to facilitate "life-altering spiritual insights" in…