A new study out of Switzerland has confirmed, yet again, that LSD can be used in therapy for people with anxiety and life-threatening illnesses.
It’s technically the first study on LSD’s potential psycho therapeutic uses in forty years that focuses on anxiety. Of the 12 participants experienced major decreases in anxiety levels due to the LSD-assisted therapy. Those decreases lasted for upwards of a year after being administered.
“We had in 30 sessions (22 with full dose 200 μg LSD and 8 with placebo dose 20 μg LSD) no severe side effects such as psychotic experiences or suicidal crisis or flashbacks or severe anxieties (bad trips),” says the study’s lead, Peter Gasser, M.D. “That means that we can show that LSD treatment can be safe when it is done in a carefully controlled clinical setting.”
