Fred Holsten

Flashbacks: A personal follow-up

Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten December 1, 1976 Fred Holsten

During the period 1971–1973, it was found that 53 out of 91 young drug abusers in a psychiatric hospital had experienced flashbacks. This applied to as many as 50 out of the 65 patients who had used LSD, but also to abusers of organic solvents and cannabis. As many as 38% of the patients were found to be severely incapacitated by their flashbacks. On a personal follow-up 1 1/2–4 years after the...