Psychedelic Drugs in Correctional Treatment
Crime & Delinquency July 1, 1972 D F Duncan 1 citation
Psychedelic drugs have been used for individual psychotherapy in prison settings. In 1961 Timothy Leary and Walter Houston Clark administered psilocybin to thirty-three prisoners at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, with seemingly positive effects on the inmate-subjects. William H. Lyle gave doses of LSD to inmate-addicts from the Clinical Research Center in Lexington, Kentucky, indicating that LSD can accelerate certain forms of psychotherapy. Because long-term follow-ups were not conducted on either study, their full value cannot be determined. These programs suggest that further research should be conducted on the use of psychedelic drugs in correctional settings.