Xref: utzoo sci.med:23521 sci.bio:4579 alt.drugs:9873 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!honig From: honig@ics.uci.edu (David Honig) Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.bio,alt.drugs Subject: Re: LSD and Manic depression. Message-ID: <27DA94AE.15137@ics.uci.edu> Date: 10 Mar 91 20:18:54 GMT References: Reply-To: honig@ics.uci.edu (David Honig) Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS Lines: 20 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. LSD can't *cause* an organic psychiatric condition like being a bipolar, but it might *trigger* a nasty episode. Also, people with organic conditions (eg, hyperactivity, history of psychosis, schizophrenia) may be especially sensitive (I've known a few, and they are, sorry this is anecdotal) to such drugs. I would take what a lecturer on buddism says about psychopharmacology with a grain of salt, esp since he might have a hidden agenda, eg, chemicals have hazards but my philosophy doesn't.... -- David A. Honig Quotas are for files, not people.