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Assay and drug development technologies

ISSN 1557-8127

1 paper in the library · 3 citations · publishing 2016

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From Psychiatry to Flower Power and Back Again: The Amazing Story of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide.

Assay and drug development technologies July 1, 2016 Hermann A M Mucke 3 citations

Among the psychedelic drugs that enjoyed a period of popularity in psychiatric research during the 1950s and 1960s, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is the most prominent one. Psychiatrists of that time had seen LSD not only as a tool for psychotherapy but also as a potential therapeutic for anxiety, depression, alcohol abuse, autism, and even schizophrenia. When it became a quasi-religious...