Created on: Thursday, 26 November 2009 Modified on: Thursday, 27 June 2019

LSD Treatment Clinics in the United States

LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) is a semi synthetic psychedelic drug, and gives unusual psychedelic effects. For example, it will create visual effects of colors and crawling geometric patterns. Today LSD is mainly used as a recreational drug, and is classified as a hallucinogen of the psychedelic type.

History of LSD

LSD was first discovered and made by a Swiss scientist named Albert Hoffman in 1938. The drug was made from grain fungus that was typically grown on rye bread. LSD was then later introduced by Sandoz Laboratories for psychiatric use with psychiatric patients. For many years, LSD was used for therapeutic purposes; however, the abuse of the drug became rampant within western society, and LSD was soon banned in many countries.

Physical and Psychological Effects of LSD

Typically, LSD is used orally, and taken on absorbent blotter paper, sugar cubes, or some form of gelatin. The physical reactions do vary from person to person depending on the amount used and frequency of it. The following physical symptoms have been recorded:

Elevated blood sugar	Pupil dilation
Fever	Sleeplessness
Hypothermia	Tremors
Increased heart rate	Uterine contractions
Jaw clenching

Psychologically, the drug creates what are called LSD trips. These also vary from person to person, depending on the individuals’ mental history, the amount used, and emotional state at time of use, and frequency of use. Long-term use of the drug will cause extensive psycho emotional effects, while changing their personality and life perspective.

Psychological effects include:

Crawling geometric patterns	Patterns behind the eyes
Loss of identity	Seeing radiant colors
Objects and surfaces appearing to ripple	Time distorting

Risks of LSD Use

LSD, like any drug will impair the person’s abilities to make sensible decisions and judgment. The drug will have strong adverse reactions with those individuals who are taking antidepressants or other forms of psychiatric medication. It will also cause severe psychological flashbacks, which could potentially last for long periods of time. It has as well been known to cause psychosis in healthy individuals.

Is LSD addictive?

LSD does not stimulate any behavior that is typical of addictive drugs. Thus, it is not as addictive as other drugs such as crack, or heroines are. However, this doesn’t give you free rein to abuse it. It has no physical addictive qualities, but excess abuse can lead to psychological damage.

How to detox from LSD

There are not normally physical withdrawal symptoms connected with stopping the use of LSD. However, the psychological effects can at times be very troubling and most LSD users will get help from a medical professional to stabilize mentally prior to any type of drug treatment or rehab.

LSD Detox Centers In the United States

Due to the bizarre (sometimes terrorizing and frightening) effects of LSD, addiction is not of the same physical category or need as say opiates, or alcohol. There is a tolerance building mechanism in place though, that may encourage a user to use stronger and stronger doses to achieve the state of altered consciousness. In this regard, it is a dangerous and slippery slope, as the drug has been known to cause the user to go on a “trip” and never come back to normalcy ever again. A common diagnosis of a victim of a frightening and lingering trip is ‘schizophrenia." The symptoms are similar. The more common result of LSD use, even non habitual, is a “flashback” of the event, which occurs with unpredictable frequency and duration. Flashbacks can occur years later.

In the unfortunate event of an LSD experience that leaves the person mentally unstable or psychotic tooltip psychotic, there are several detox procedures available and commonly used, with varying success.

HOW LONG DOES LSD STAY IN YOUR SYSTEM?

According to studies, 50% of LSD completely leaves your body up to 5 hours after ingestion. However, for it to fully be eliminated from your body, it can take up to 14-28 hours depending on the amount of quantity ingested and your metabolism rate.

CAN LSD FLASHBACKS OCCUR YEARS AFTER STOPPING USING THIS DRUG?

Many former users have stated to experience hallucinations and flashbacks years after they have stopped using this drug. LSD is such a heavy mind altering drug that some users can never really escape its grasp physically and mentally.

Another detox method involves restoring the depleted stores of vitamins and minerals and other nutrients, which has had quick and almost miraculous results, which do not need further medicating. A highly important vitamin in LSD detox is VITAMIN C. It often acts as a very effective mood stabilizer after LSD use.

Another form to the drug detox program which has proven to be highly effective and health restoring is a biophysical cleanse involving both nutrients and sauna. The toxins from LSD use have a high affinity for fat, and do store in the body in the fat tissues. It is thought that is the reason for otherwise inexplicable “flashbacks” months or years later. A mixture of nutrients and elements can be ingested that convert the fat-soluble toxins into water soluble, and this way the body sheds the residues through the sweat, and this way a cleanse is achieved, which does not compromise the liver or other vital organs. It has been found that after this type of cellular cleanses, flashbacks cease to occur.

Work cited – Wikipedia, 30 May, 2009, 31 May, 2009

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