Let's assume that the findings which the BBC reports are true, this would make the perfect question for Question Time or that awful programme on BBC1 on Sunday morning at 10 o'clock where panellist and audience alike compete to be the most judgmental and prejudiced, the question being "Do you think it would be a good idea to treat alcoholics with the occasional LSD tab?"
There'll be bonus points for the first member of the panel to say "binge drinking epidemic", "vulnerable" or "I've seen the harm which illegal drugs cause to communities" and suchlike shite.
Sounds as if he's been reassured
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There is nothing new about this idea. Bill Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous volunteered to be a guinea pig in experiments into the usefulness of LSD back in the Sixties.
I suspect it would work very well, not least because, once people experienced the sort of buzz you apparently get with LSD, alcohol would seem rather less appealing.
Does LSD make you hit people, crap your pants and fall asleep in odd places?
"Do you think it would be a good idea to treat alcoholics with the occasional LSD tab?"
That's the problem - they don't really like the word "treat".
AWS: "Does LSD make you hit people, crap your pants and fall asleep in odd places?"
I don't think so, but I don't actually know.
AKH, there's a difference between "treat to" and "treat with", isn't there?
"Does LSD make you hit people, crap your pants and fall asleep in odd places?"
Sometimes worse things.
But this just seems like swapping the 'drying out' ward for the psychiatric ward to me...
Sounds like a plan.
When I was knocking back industrial quantities of acid back in the late 60s, I hardly drank at all. The occasional black velvet at Flanagan's in High Street Ken was about the extent of it.
I can't imagine how awful it must be to get drunk when you're high on LSD.
Have you ever trued lsd? It aint what you think. With alcohol at least you have some control. With lsd if you try to control it, you will lose your mind
Robin: respectively, yes; depends on what "you think" is; depends on the drinker (and if you're signing up for dry-out schemes, you're probably not on the 'control' side of matters; and no.
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