LSD could help alcoholics stop drinking, AA founder believed

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The co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) believed LSD could be used to cure alcoholics and credited the drug with helping his own recovery from often debilitating depression, according to new research.

About 20 years after setting up the Ohio-based sobriety movement in 1935, Bill Wilson came to believe that LSD could help "cynical alcoholics" achieve a "spiritual awakening" and start on the path to recovery.

The discovery that Wilson considered using the drug as an aid to recovery for addicts was made by Don Lattin, author of a book to be published in October by the University of California Press, entitled Distilled Spirits.

Full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/23/lsd-help-alcoholics-theory

[Cleita]

1. Didn't Dr.Timothy O'Leary believe the same? n/t

[liberalmuse]

2. Studies were done back in the 1960's...

and yes, psychedelics were very successful in helping alcoholics and those with PTSD. Too bad the government nipped that in the bud (no pun intended).

[panader0]

3. I've been drinking a lot more since I quit doing acid

[SomethingFishy]

4. The problem with this thinking is that not everyone

should be allowed to take acid. Some peoples minds can handle it and some can't. I say this from many years of experience.

[fascisthunter]

5. I watched a science documentary regarding this....

[99th_Monkey]

6. Wow, this is awesome info. thanks for sharing it. ~nt

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Tim Leary felt the same way.

I have my own opinions on Wilson and the whole 12 Step Phenomenon, but there is solid science behind the idea that psychedelics can be beneficial for some people in many ways.

[Itchinjim]

8. Speaking from personal experience,

Drunk and tripping don't mix.