A Statistical Survey of Adverse Reactions to LSD in Los Angeles County

Ungerleider, J. Thomas; Fisher, D D; Goldsmith, Stephen R.; Fuller, Marielle; Forgy, Ed

doi:10.1176/ajp.125.3.352

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“…In the author's view, this pattern parallels development, persistence, and precipitation of substance-experience-based flashbacks. Such experiences may have been more frequent than was generally recognized (Solursh and Solursh, 1968;Solursh, 1970;Ungerleider et al, 1968). This occurrence in relation to level of CNS excitation has been termed "arousal-statebound" (Fischer, 1971).…”

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Combat addiction: Overview of implications in symptom maintenance and treatment planning

Solursh

1989

J Trauma Stress

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T o m b a t addiction" is discussed as a concept central to understanding the chronicity and treatment-resistant quality of post-traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam combat survivors. Possible neurophysiologic, neurochemical, neuroelectrical, and behavioral parameters are addressed with regard to these mutually rein forcing excitatory states beginning with multiple combat experiences. Interviews with 100 such veterans revealed the remarkably frequent (94%) description of intrusive realistic reexperiencing of combat, particularly nightmares, as feeling po werful, excitinga "high" or "rush ' *-with intervening states being experienced as unpleasant. Other findings are also presented which tend to support this concept. Implications for treatment planning are outlined.

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Combat addiction: Overview of implications in symptom maintenance and treatment planning

Solursh

1989

J Trauma Stress

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“…In addition, investigators have defined adverse reactions in different ways. In one survey (Ungerleider, Fisher, Goldsmith, Fuller, & Forgy, 1968), for example, a physician's biases toward LSD led him to state: "1 would consider all reactions to LSD as 'adverse' regardless of the immediate subjective response [p. 355J."…”

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Long-term psychological effects of LSD.

McWilliams¹,

Tuttle²

1973

Psychological Bulletin

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The literature reporting lasting adverse psychological reactions to LSD is reviewed, along with other relevant reports where LSD users were followed. The danger of long-lasting psychological damage is low when the drug is used by emotionally stable individuals in secure, controlled settings, but persons with psychiatric disturbance, unstable personalities, and current crisis situations have experienced pathological behavior temporally related to drug ingestion. Adverse reactions were not reported in well-controlled studies with normal subjects, indicating the drug's relative safety for continued research.

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“…Such experiences may have been more frequent than was generally recognized (Solursh and Solursh, 1968;Solursh, 1970;Ungerleider et al, 1968). This occurrence in relation to level of CNS excitation has been termed "arousal-statebound" (Fischer, 1971).…”

Section: Theoretical Constructsmentioning

confidence: 99%