Olijfboompje schreef:
Mensen die gezond qua gestel zijn kunnen wel degelijk iets overhouden aan een LSD trip. Hogere hoeveelheden kunnen wel degelijk geestelijke schade achterlaten.
Denk aan het gevoel jezelf niet meer te zijn, verlies van controle, bepaalde gedachtes die constant blijven en andere psyschische problematiek.
Je hebt het dan echter wel over hoge/extreme hoeveelheden.
Waar kom je in godsnaam met die informatie vandaan, de problematiek wat jij aanwijst ligt niet aan de hoge dosering maar aan de gemoestoestand van de gebruiker die de overweldigende ervaring niet aankan.. Alle niet biased informatie toont aan dat lsd geen geestelijke schade oplevert en dat wanneer een gebruiker negatieve naeffecten heeft deze toe te schrijven aan de gebruiker, en dus niet de drug..
Citaat:
Some users of LSD experience what is clinically referred to as LSD psychosis, schizophrenic-like disorders that seem to be triggered by using the drug. However, in careful analysis of LSD psychosis patients, it appears that those who have strong family histories of major psychosis or psychopathology are more vulnerable than those who do not (Tsuang et al., 1982). Vardy et al. (1983) reported similar findings, as well as that LSD psychotics have significantly higher rates of parental alcoholism than control groups. In a survey of five-thousand individuals who had used LSD a total of twenty-five-thousand times, Cohen (1960) found 1.8 psychotic episodes per thousand ingestions, 1.2 attempted suicides, and 0.4 completed suicides -- figures consistent with the those of the general population. Regarding dangers of psychosis in therapeutic uses of LSD, Pahnke et al. (1970) notes:
"Since 1963 at the Spring Grove State Hospital, and now at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, over 300 patients have been treated with LSD without a single case of long-term psychological or physical harm directly attributable to the treatment, although there have been two post-LSD disturbances which have subsequently responded to conventional treatment."
Bad reactions to LSD are almost certainly dependent on the user. It is becoming increasingly easier to diagnose schizophrenics clinically as patients suffering physical disorders -- these people should be very cautious, if not completely avoidant of truly powerful psychoactive drugs like LSD. There are another class of people who use LSD irresponsibly, ignoring important factors like set and setting -- bad reactions, more acute then chronic, are likely to occur here as well.
Really the only serious physiological concern about LSD use has been that it may cause chromosome damage -- this was first reported by Cohen et al. in 1967. These findings were seldom replicated, and were contradicted by other studies (Loughman et al., 1967; Bender et al., 1968; Pahnke, 1970). In 1977, Maimon Cohen, one of the invesigators who first reported this a decade earlier, stated that no conclusions could be drawn based on existing evidence (Cohen et al., 1977).