Want to Quit Drinking? Try LSD Instead! - JohnsAddictionResearch out of Norway suggests that LSD can cure your alcoholism. For real.
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD, was used in the 1960s and 70s for all sorts of research. Some of that research involved alcoholics and alcoholism. Now modern day researchers in Norway re-analyzed that research using a sometimes controversial method known as “meta analysis”, to see if the entire collection of data from multiple studies might reveal more than the individual studies did on their own back then.
Proponents of meta analysis are often criticized for their less-than-realistic interpretation of raw data. They often used complex statistical methods to work around complications that make more direct analysis impossible. Since they are not actually doing the data collection, meta analysts ignore factors that could be very significant if it were possible to include them, according to critics.
In this case, meta analysis suggests that doses of LSD may have been more effective than anti-drinking drugs like daily naltrexone (ReVia), acamprosate (Campral), or disulfiram (Antabuse).
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