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[The substance experience, a history of LSD].

François Beck, Nicolas Bonnet

Medecine sciences : M/S April 1, 2013 DOI: 10.1051/medsci/2013294018 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Review Peer reviewed
Topics LSD
Citations 6
Key findings LSD is rarely used but has a favorable image among illicit drug users, linked to its effects and countercultural history.

Abstract

This article reviews the recent knowledge on LSD stemming from various disciplines among which pharmacology, sociology and epidemiology. The d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a particularly powerful hallucinogenic substance. It produces distortions and hearing, visual and tactile hallucinations. Rarely used (only 1.7% of people aged 15-64 years old have tried it in their lifetime), this very powerful drug generates a strong apprehension within the general population, but the ethnographical studies show that its image seems rather good among illicit drug users. This representation relies both on the proper effects of this substance and also on the history of LSD very closely linked to the counterculture characteristic of the years 1960-1970.

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Study of a New Schizophrenomimetic Drug—Sernyl 1959 Review
Classic psychedelics: An integrative review of epidemiology, therapeutics, mystical experience, and brain network function. General population 2019 Integrative review
The Pharmacology of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: A Review 2008 Review
Serotonin research: contributions to understanding psychoses 2008 Review
ADVERSE REACTIONS TO PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS. A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE 1984 Review

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