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Re:5-MeO-DMT Associated with Improvements in Depression, Anx... by ta1234567890 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:21AM (#19431632)
Don't know about this particular experiment. However, in the book How to Change your Mind, there are a lot of references to recent research of psychedelic therapy to treat addictions and after 1-3 sessions, 50-80% of subjects drop their addictions for good (at the time of the book's writing, they had only been able to follow the patients for up to 1 year). There's also the anecdote of one of the founders of AA, who quit alcohol through psychedelic therapy.
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Re:5-MeO-DMT Associated with Improvements in Depression, Anx... by max76 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:16PM (#19433770)
> There's also the anecdote of one of the founders of AA, who quit alcohol through psychedelic therapy.

Bill Wilson quit drinking in the 1930s, and experienced LSD in the 1950s. While he talked about LSD therapy for alcoholics in positive light, he was already sober and started AA before trying LSD.

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Re:5-MeO-DMT Associated with Improvements in Depression, Anx... by entitydc on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:37PM (#19437328)
Bill Wilson was treated with Belladona as part of his treatment for alcoholism, which may have accounted for his later interest in LSD, given the well known and well documented dangers of the Belladona treatment.
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