Wonder Drugs and LSD part 2

Question 1

What are the “two arms” of LSD?

Answer 1

1) Empathy of individual with hallucinations

2) Addictions treatment

Question 2

Who believed that alcoholism is a disease?

Answer 2

E.M. Jellinek

Question 3

What was Bill W the co-founder of?

Answer 3

A.A.

Question 4

What is step 2 of the 12 step program of Bill W. and A.A?

Answer 4

“Four our Group purposes there is but one ultimate authority–a loving God as He may express Himself in our Group conscience.”

Question 5

Is the 12 step program medical?

Answer 5

non-medical

Question 6

Who cured alcoholism as a disease? What did they use?

Answer 6

• Humphry Osmond and Abram Hoffer

- LSD

Question 7

What was the result of curing alcoholism with LSK?

Answer 7

Strong endorsement in medical literature for LSD treatments

Question 8

What was the success rate for LSD treatment?

Answer 8

Claim success rates from 30 to 90% with 2 year follow-up studies.

Question 9

What revealed sustained sobriety?

Answer 9

treatments with former patients

Question 10

What did the critics of psychedelic therapy argue (4 points)?

Answer 10

1) experiments lacked scientific basis
2) no proof of medicinal value
3) negative side effects outweighed any benefits
4) LSD is dangerous–black market, hard to trace

Question 11

What were the negative side effects of psychedelic therapy?

Answer 11

• flashbacks
• self-destructive behaviour
• loss of memory

Question 12

What were 3 people who supported LSD therapy?

Answer 12

1) Tommy Douglas
2) Temperance Reformers
3) Churches like the spiritual elements

Question 13

What showed the dangers of LSD to the public?

Answer 13

Hundreds of media

Question 14

Who was Timothy Leary?

Answer 14

Harvard psychologist

Question 15

What did Leary use LSD for?

Answer 15

LSD experiments for ‘inner freedom’

-CIA and LSD as a truth serum

Question 16

What did Leary argue about drugs?

Answer 16

That they should be decriminalized, free to use.

Question 17

Why was Leary fired from Harvard in 1962?

Answer 17

For ‘unethical’ experiments with mushrooms and LSD

Question 18

What is counterculture?

Answer 18

Rebellious middle-class youth movement

Question 19

What did counterculture see LSD as?

Answer 19

Responsible for anti-establishment values, anti-Viet Nam war protests, etc.

Question 20

Who blamed LSD for anti-patriotism?

Answer 20

President Nixon

Question 21

What did counterculture challenge?

Answer 21

Cultural conception of ‘normal’

-family, lifestyle, society, authority

Question 22

What was counterculture fuelled by?

Answer 22

By popular culture: intellectuals, artists, musicians

Question 23

How did LSD have an effect on counterculture?

Answer 23

LSD is now used for arts, no longer just medicine.

Question 24

Who is known for the effect that LSD has on counterculture?

Answer 24

Ken Kesey

Question 25

Who is Ken Kesey (3 points)?

Answer 25

1) Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)
2) Stanford University student
3) Volunteered for LSD treatment

Question 26

What did Kesey argue?

Answer 26

That LSD is the secret for bettering America

Question 27

What are the three parts to the psychedelic renaissance?

Answer 27

• PTSD
• Addictions
• Palliative Care

Question 28

Why use drugs to treat illnesses?

Answer 28

• Less invasive than somatic therapies
• Seem more sophisticated
• Profits?
• Democratic?

Question 29

What are the 7 forces that led to the rise of psychopharmacology?

Answer 29

1. ineffectiveness in existing treatments
2. scientific curiosity
3. quest for professional legitimacy
4. profits
5. desire for a ‘magic bullet’
6. destigmatization through medicalization
7. economic concerns

Question 30

what are the 3 consequences of psychopharmacology?

Answer 30

1. ‘cosmetic psychopharm’?
2. rise of drug-seeking in patients
3. desire to use drugs to combat unhappiness and social maladjustment