LSD experiments by the United States Army
History of Psychiatry July 7, 2017 Colin A. Ross 7 citations
Between 1955 and 1967, the US Army conducted extensive LSD testing on soldiers at Edgewood Arsenal and other sites. Official reports, including the 2003 Veterans Health Initiative Report, have minimized the short- and long-term side effects of this testing, but the reports themselves document frequent and severe complications that the Army attributed directly to LSD exposure. Given renewed psychiatric interest in hallucinogens, the authors argue that the sanitized official account should be replaced with a more accurate description of the harm suffered by soldiers.