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In Britain, the first results of studies on the use of LSD for the treatment of drug addiction and mental disorders were published, in which twenty young people took part. At this stage, we are talking only about the intermediate results of experiments, the final conclusions will be made in the fall of 2015.
LSD is a synthetic psychoactive substance, which at the end of the 1930s was first obtained by the Swiss chemist Albert Hoffmann.
After the discovery of the substance it was intended to use LSD in psychiatry for the treatment of mental disorders, in particular for the treatment of schizophrenia.
The first experiments in this field showed great potential of the drug, but then the use of LSD among young people got out of control and led to a major political scandal, after which the drug was completely banned, both for medical purposes, and to restore efficiency or consciousness, which is often used different spiritual directions.
The head of the new research project David Nutt, an employee of the Imperial College in London, noted that if during the experiments the therapeutic effect of LSD and its ability to neutralize pathologies in the brain that occur as a result of drug dependence or depression be confirmed, conducted in the 60 years of work associated with the influence of LSD on the human psyche, especially the part in which the effect of the drug on drug addicts was studied.
David Nutt worked for a long time in the UK Government Committee on the excessive use of narcotic drugs, but in 2009 he resigned from his post because of a scandal. Nutt said that marijuana and some other light narcotic substances are less dangerous than they are said, and they should not be equated with heavy drugs such as heroin or cocaine .. In his opinion, in comparison with light drugs, tobacco or alcohol represents much more danger to human health.
After David Natta was fired with a scandal from the committee, he founded an independent scientific committee on drug problems. Subsequently, the reform of 2011, Nutt said that the committee he founded should replace the government organization whose decisions are more substantiated by politics than the opinion of drug scientists. During the "secret war", Natta took an important step - began to study the possibility of using LSD in psychiatric practice. A team of specialists collected 20 volunteers who agreed to take a dose of the drug and pass a magnetic resonance imaging.
As David Nutt stated, his group will publish the results of the research in one of the well-known scientific journals.
But now the public has become aware of exactly what sensations experienced by participants in the experiments after taking LSD. After specialists provide data on the positive effect of the drug on the human psyche, they will ask the UK government to allow them to continue working in this direction.
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