Article ID: CBB313699629

LSD experiments by the United States Army (2017)

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Extensive LSD testing was conducted by the US Army at Edgewood Arsenal and other locations from 1955 to 1967. A number of different reports have been produced describing the health effects of this testing, including the Veterans Health Initiative Report in 2003. By and large, these reports gloss over and minimize the short and long-term side effects and complications of this testing. However, the reports themselves document frequent, severe complications of the LSD. These side effects were regarded by the Army as having been directly caused by the LSD exposure. In view of the current resurgence of interest in hallucinogens within psychiatry, the sanitized version of the effects of LSD exposure on US soldiers needs to be replaced with a more accurate account.

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Authors & Contributors
Larsen, Jens Knud
Williams, Charlie
Hartogsohn, Ido
Fitzpatrick, K. Meghan
Johnstad, Petter Grahl
Norman M. Camp
Concepts
Psychiatry
Psychedelics
LSD (drug)
Science and war; science and the military
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Psychotropic drugs
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
Commonwealth countries
Greenland
Norway
Denmark
Canada
Institutions
United States. Army
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
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