Treatment of alcoholism using psychedelic drugs: a review of the program of research.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1998 M Mangini 107 citations
Following Albert Hofmann's discovery of LSD's psychoactive properties in 1943, and previous to their scheduling as controlled substances, the psychedelic drugs were widely studied--six international conferences and hundreds of papers discussed their potential therapeutic usefulness. The observation that the frightening experience of delirium tremens sometimes led alcoholics to moderate their...