A scientist who can administer the hallucinogen "LSD" for the first time in 40 years

ByLuc De Leeuw

LSDWas a hallucinogen sold as a marketing medicine from 1943 to 1963 and was used in psychotherapy such as psychotherapy. Since abuse was spread among young people and hippies, it was regulated by laws of various countries around the world, in Japan since 1970Narcotic and Psychotropic Control LawExport, import, possession, use, etc. are strictly enforced by. What kind of person is the scientist who has been approved to administer LSD to humans for the first time in 40 years to demonstrate the effect as a hallucinogens treatment of such LSD?

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Robin Carhart-HarrisDr.Imperial College LondonA scientist who conducts research on hallucinogenics such as LSD at the Center for Neuropsychopharmacology. Dr. is the only person qualified to legally administer LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), which is prohibited for use in the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law from 1971 in the United Kingdom, to the experiment collaborators, influence of the brain administered the drug It contributes to the development of psychotherapy treatment such as depression using hallucinogenic agent by investigating.


As a plant-derived hallucinogenPeyoteSuch asMescarin,AyahuascaDMT made fromDimethyltryptamine), Known for magic mushroomsPsilocybinAnd has been used as therapeutic drugs and medical medicines all over the world for more than 1000 years.

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LSD was established in 1943 by a pharmaceutical companysandsoergotI was studyingAlbert HoffmanDr. was developed because it got an unexpected psychedelic experience with a small amount of solution on the fingertip. Dr. Hoffman is interviewing just before he is 100 and calls LSD "a drug of the soul".

ByPhilip H. Bailey

After the birth of LSD, systematic scientific research of hallucinogenic agents opens. Until 1947, LSD was sold by Sando as a psychotherapeutic supplement "Delysid", and actorCary GrantMr. or,Alcohol intoxication party(AA) co-founder Bill Wilson became famous for what he was using for therapy.


At the time when Sandoff stopped selling the LSD, documents stating the clinical results of as many as 40,000 patients that were created between the 1950s and 1965 remained. In 2012, six meta-analysis based comparison tests were conducted based on the document, confirming that clinical effectiveness is effective even in recent years when alcohol poisoning treatment developed. While Dr. Harris is familiar with "trace doses" that can benefit from LSD without harming health, Dr. Dr. says, "Personally, there are many dangers that can cause poisoning in LSD I am thinking. " This means that a person who knows the change in psychopathological brain activity due to ingestion of LSD may occur when actively seek ingestion. Another doctor also considers "appropriate medical explanation and warning by experts is necessary" about the potential dangers of hallucinogen.

Dr. Harris explains, "There is some evidence that hallucinogens have some kind of reversibility." Hallucinogen has the possibility of choosing destruction and strengthening of nerve connection with respect to nerve connection in the brain and that it can do "learning of new thing" and "oblivion of old thing" at the same time. As a result, Dr. Harris explains, "I can cause a kind of flexibility in my heart."


When you ingest a psychoactive drug because you want a pleasant sensation, you may become obsessed with changes in perception and novelty, you may not be able to stop laughing with confusion or worry, but the dosage that Dr. Harris administers in the test Is much smaller than the amount consumed by addicts taking illegal drugs. Nonetheless volunteers participating in the experiment lie on the sofa and close their eyes, experiencing feelings of emotion and memory. Dr. Harris said, "The time when they explain the psychological situation at that time is the most interesting moment," he says he sometimes speaks vividly as if he had just happened just as he caught the memory of the distant past. Such an effect is very effective for psychotherapy.

In July 2014, Daily Mail posted an article on Dr. Harris's "Treatment of Depression with Magic Mushroom", but "Ingestion of Sisirobin will lower your brain by oiling" " It can not be dead or can not be melancholy when it comes to being sent to a mental hospital, "the statement of content that criticizes the effect of the experiment is included.

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In contrast, Dr. Harris regards it as "standard reaction to fear of hallucinogen". Actually there have been reports on the occurrence of psychosis due to abuse of hallucinogens in just a few cases in the past and a few death cases have been reported in the 1960's, but it is a result of confusion or impurities contained in inferior goods , It is said that death report concerning abuse of hallucinogen is not confirmed in the present age. In addition, careful screening is aimed at volunteer recruitment, such as conducting experiments only for those who have experienced psychedelic drugs.

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Then why was LSD still enacted as a dangerous drug now? As for that, Dr. Harris explains, "Because hallucinogens make their minds naked".Sigmund Freud"Unconscious" which the theorists preached is a difficult area to investigate, but since the hallucinogen has a characteristic of "decomposing self-consciousness", it is suitable for observation of unconscious mind movements.

As it is designated as a psychotropic drug all over the world, research on LSD can not be promoted quite a lot, but in March 1998, Beckley Foundation Amanda Fielding gave Dr. Harris fund of LSD research There are also people who support hallucinogen medication as provided by the majority of. Dr. Harris is planning to continue his research to prove further scientific effects, and he is thinking of raising funds through cloud funding in the future.