Most of the included trials were conducted in the USA; one was conducted in Canada. All the trials were published between and Where reported, the age of the patients ranged from 21 to 59 years.
The treatment programmes ranged in duration from seven to 90 days, and involved individual or group therapy or both. One trial was conducted within a therapeutic community. During exposure to a dose of LSD, patients were observed; or given supportive reassurance for self-examination or introspection, psychotherapy, or guidance aimed at attainment of transcendental experiences.
The dose of LSD ranged from to mcg in the intervention groups. Comparators were treatment as usual, ephedrine 60mg d-amphetamine 60mg and LSD at doses of 25 or 50mcg. The primary outcomes were alcohol misuse, defined as alcohol use or consequences of alcohol use, measured by interview or self-report at the first follow-up.
Secondary outcomes were alcohol misuse at short term approximately three months , medium term approximately six months and long term approximately 12 months. Other outcomes were abstinence, reports of adverse events, and other non-specified secondary outcomes.
Two reviewers independently assessed the methodological quality of the included trials, using the Cochrane risk of bias tool. This had criteria for sequence generation, allocation concealment, blinding, treatment of incomplete outcome data, and selective outcome reporting.
Trial authors or institutions were contacted for missing data, where necessary. The numbers-needed-to-treat for benefit were calculated. Six randomised controlled trials, with patients, were included in the review. Patients who were lost to follow-up were treated as "not improved". All the trials reported randomisation and attempts to conceal allocation.
Two trials were judged to have a high risk of bias due to inadequate blinding of patients and staff, two had incomplete outcome data, and two had selective outcome reporting. One trial was judged to have a high risk of bias due to baseline imbalances between groups. Follow-up in the trials ranged from three to 12 months. With LSD there were significant benefits for alcohol use and misuse at the first available follow-up OR 1. There were statistically significant benefits with LSD, compared with control, for the maintenance of abstinence from alcohol use, at the first reported follow-up OR 2.
Sensitivity analyses found that the beneficial effects of LSD at first follow-up remained statistically significant when the following trials were excluded: any two of the four larger trials; trials with high risks of bias on each domain of the quality assessment; and two trials with lower retention rates; as well as when the analysis was restricted to outcomes that were specific to alcohol use. Five trials reported a total of eight acute adverse events, which included a seizure, moderate confusion and agitation, nausea, vomiting, and acting in a bizarre fashion.
One dose of LSD had significant benefits at the short-term follow-up, but the benefits were not maintained at longer follow-up times of 12 months after treatment. The review addressed a clear question and the criteria for the inclusion of trials were outlined.
Two appropriate databases were searched, for relevant trials, with no language restrictions, and some attempts were made to identify unpublished studies, reducing the risk of publication bias.
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Some people may inhale LSD through the nose snort or inject it into a vein shoot it up. There is no way to predict the amount of LSD that is contained in any form consumed. There is no safe level of drug use. Use of any drug always carries some risk. The effects of LSD usually begin in 30 — 45 minutes and can last for 4 to 12 hours. If you take a large amount, the negative effects of LSD are more likely to happen.
This can lead to panic and risky behaviour, like running across a road or attempting self-harm. Some people who regularly use LSD may eventually experience flashbacks. A flashback is when an LSD experience reoccurs, they are usually visual distortions that involve perceptual or emotional changes. Flashbacks can happen weeks, months or even years after the drug was last taken.
This can be disturbing, especially if a frightening experience or hallucination is recalled. Flashbacks can be brought on by using other drugs, stress, tiredness or exercise and usually last for a minute or two. Tolerance develops rapidly to the effects of LSD. After the third or fourth consecutive days of taking LSD, no amount of the drug can produce the desired effects. However, after a short period of abstinence about days normal tolerance returns.
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