Today's guest is Susannah Cahalan, whose new book is The Acid Queen, a biography of Rosemary Woodruff Leary—muse, fugitive, ...

One dose of LSD in a clinical trial significantly improved anxiety and lasted for 12 weeks, convincing the FDA to give the drug a breakthrough therapy designation.

With LSD finally gaining mainstream acceptance — just last month, ... The US military was detemined to, in their words, “exploit German science and technology for the benefit” of America.

But America’s spy agencies saw something different. They thought the drugs could be new weapons of war. In 1953, the CIA created Project MKUltra to research how psychoactive drugs could be used ...

Psychiatrist’s 1960s LSD Mind-Control Experiments Come Back to Haunt America. News provided by. EIN Presswire Jan 09, 2023, 1:07 PM ET ...

Just as Harvard students were fed doses of LSD, psilocybin and other potions, so too were prisoners and many unwitting guinea pigs. Sometimes the results were disastrous.

Between 1950 and 1965, some 40,000 patients had been prescribed one form of LSD therapy or another, as treatment for neurosis, schizophrenia, and psychopathy. It was even prescribed to children ...

LSD has had a colourful history. The psychedelic drug was celebrated in hippie counterculture, before being blamed for America's social ills, to now being used in controversial medical research ...

I worked in corporate America for (seemingly) 100 years so part of it is I take my time with things. I’m off my meds and I just don’t feel that sense of anxiety and monkeys on my back and dread.

Psychiatrist’s 1960s LSD Mind-Control Experiments Come Back to Haunt America. News provided by. EIN Presswire Jan 09, 2023, 1:07 PM ET ...