CoL49 (5) Sidney [Genghis] Cohen

[Robin Landseadel]

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/