NPR - "LSD Gets Another Look As Alcoholism Treatment"

LSD Gets Another Look As Alcoholism Treatment : Shots - Health Blog : NPR

You might be tempted to chuckle about some Norwegian researchers peering back at experiments done during the '60s and '70s with LSD as a treatment for alcoholism. But don't. Their rigorous research combining data from six different studies, concludes that one dose of the hallucinogenic drug might just help.

Comment...... So, let me see if I got this straight...First, the way I understand addiction is, that one drink or drug is too much and fifty drinks or drugs is not enough. Second, if someone stays clean and sober for a long period of time then goes out and drinks and uses drugs again it will be not only the same but a hundred times as bad as it was before. In my research most of the time you will never be able stop again unless of coarse you are dead..Now, these so-called researchers are saying, all you have to do is take a drug to help you stop using another drug. Third, if you do this, will your craving and desire to drink be gone, are you cured or do you have to keep using this drug to stop using alcohol? Wouldn't it be better if you stop using all mind altering drugs completely?...Personally, I think doing this treatment is only like increasing the caliber of the gun you use to blow your brains out with because most of the time that's what you will do....