CoL49 (5) Sidney [Genghis] Cohen
Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Jul 7 10:47:15 CDT 2009
Another echo of San Narcisco and environs, courtesy of the Walrus
article "Peaking on the Prairies" by Jake MacDonald:
Other psychiatrists from across the province soon joined the
team, and chronic alcoholics volunteered to take LSD under
their supervision. At the time, many psychiatrists considered
alcoholism to be a character flaw — not a biochemical disease
— and it was widely believed that alcoholics seldom quit
drinking until they hit rock bottom and experienced all the grisly
side effects of alcohol poisoning, such as the nightmarish
hallucinations associated with delirium tremens. Hoffer and
Osmond speculated that LSD might reproduce the psychosis
associated with “rock bottom” but without the dangerous and
sometimes fatal results that accompanied a serious bout of DTs.
http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2007.06-society-peaking-on-the-prairies/2/
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