A Clinical Study of LSD Treatment in Alcoholism
American Journal of Psychiatry July 1, 1969 Arnold Ludwig, Jerome Levine, Louis Stark et al. 95 citations
A controlled investigation of 176 male alcoholic patients compared three different LSD treatment procedures with a milieu-only condition. Half of each group also received disulfiram after hospital discharge to test whether it could enhance any of the treatments. All groups showed significant improvement on several clinical assessments during post-treatment and follow-up, but no single treatment condition proved superior to the others. The authors conclude that dramatic claims for the efficacy of LSD treatment in alcoholism are unjustified.