Drugs Used To Treat Alcoholism
What do you think about changing attitudes based on research?
Second chances are rare in science. In the fifties and sixties, hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD, were hailed as the magic bullet for everything from alcoholism to migraine. But they were trapped in the crossfire of the culture wars of the time. Western politicians banned the use of psychedelics in research once they started to be used in recreationally and was associated with flower-power and the counterculture. The drugs were dangerous, the science was flawed, the researchers biased. But a comeback has been going on for more than a decade. A new generation of researchers say that psychedelic drugs can treat conditions such as addiction, anxiety, stress disorder post-traumatic stress disorder and a type of headache called cluster headache. Do you think these methods of medication should be re-examined further?
Of course. The problem is the environment of the experiment is such an important element. The drug can not be successful when the experience goes "bad." A laboratory does not sound as a good place to travel, if you ask me, but for some people it might be the place to cure the problems you mentioned above, I do not know. My guess is that the studies would eventually have to be done for any type of validity in the field of science should be done in clinical circumstances and would not succeed very often. I'm sure its possible that scientists could study them more appropriate circumstances of life and discover they are very effective, but that does not mean that I will never be recognized as successful by the medical industry.
Marijuana Maintenance: Cannabis for Alcohol Dependence
