lysergic acid diethylamide
- n a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid
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- Good Trip? LSD May Ease Anxiety
Lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD or acid, has a checkered past — or, perhaps, a roiling and vibrantly colored past. Since the drug was synthesized by chemist Albert Hoffman in 1938, acid has been used by an unlikely range of people, from counterculture guru Timothy Leary to undercover CIA spies conducting experiments on unsuspecting patrons of bars and restaurants. The researchers ...
March 6, 2014 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News - First trial of LSD as medicine in 40 years shows promise
For the first time in more than four decades, the drug lysergic acid diethylamide -- better known as LSD -- has been the experimental adjunct to psychotherapy in a controlled clinical trial approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. And a newly published study on that trial reports that the medication's anti-anxiety effects on patients facing life-threatening illnesses were sizable ...
March 5, 2014 - Sun-Sentinel