Xref: utzoo sci.med:23504 sci.bio:4567 alt.drugs:9853 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!spdcc!dyer From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.bio,alt.drugs Subject: Re: LSD and Manic depression. Message-ID: <6796@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Date: 8 Mar 91 20:30:21 GMT References: Followup-To: sci.med Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 21 In article rk3h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert J. Knapp) writes: >The other day in a workshop on Bhuddism, I heard that lsd can cause >manic-deppression[bi-polar personality]. Because of my lack of faith in >the people who told me this, I'm wondering if anyone out there has any >scientific insight into this matter, I mean real results from real >experiments. No anecdotal evidence please. What do you mean by "real experiments"? C'mon. This is what can be said fairly reliably. LSD can precipitate psychoses in already unstable or predisposed individuals, but the great majority of people who have experimented with the drug short-term do not demonstrate any evidence of mental illness. I haven't come across any studies which would indicate that it causes bipolar disorder or unipolar depression. That is, this is not a syndrome which comes to mind when the term "LSD" is mentioned. -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu