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Using LSD to Treat the Fear of Dying
A Swiss psychiatrist would like to help terminally ill people with LSD. This is the first official attempt to use the hallucinogenic drug for therapeutic purposes.
By Jean-Martin Büttner
Solothurn
Shortly before noon, he asked for 100 micrograms of LSD. His wife administered it to him by injection directly into the muscle, followed by a second dose two and a half hours later. He was oblivious to the flickering television screen in the next room – images from Texas. It was the morning of November 22nd, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas. In the late afternoon Aldous Huxley fell asleep and dreamed no more.
The author died of cancer of the throat. Doctors had prepared his wife for a dramatic end, since the final phase usually involves attacks of asphyxia. “He passed away quietly and peacefully, however
A Swiss psychiatrist would like to help terminally ill people with LSD. This is the first official attempt to use the hallucinogenic drug for therapeutic purposes.
By Jean-Martin Büttner
Solothurn
Shortly before noon, he asked for 100 micrograms of LSD. His wife administered it to him by injection directly into the muscle, followed by a second dose two and a half hours later. He was oblivious to the flickering television screen in the next room – images from Texas. It was the morning of November 22nd, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas. In the late afternoon Aldous Huxley fell asleep and dreamed no more.
The author died of cancer of the throat. Doctors had prepared his wife for a dramatic end, since the final phase usually involves attacks of asphyxia. “He passed away quietly and peacefully, however
