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An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

147 pointsby jaooalmost 5 years ago

20 comments

entropyneuralmost 5 years ago
So no info on what it actually is. Just some company filing a patent. And the fact that they call it &quot;a neutralizer technology&quot; suggests that it&#x27;s probably just a bunch of BS combined with previously known drugs to make it patentable.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure there&#x27;s at least some published research on using at least one antipsychotic for that and mountains of &quot;folk research&quot; on using benzodiazepines.
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wreetalmost 5 years ago
We already have one. Give someone having a bad trip a Xanax and they&#x27;re good.
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1MachineElfalmost 5 years ago
To be honest, I&#x27;m more interested in an <i>easy to acquire</i> &quot;On-Switch&quot; than anything else.
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heavyset_goalmost 5 years ago
Any competitive 5-HT2A antagonist will block psychedelic effects from classical psychedelic drugs, and D2 antagonists will block the potential for stimulant-esque psychosis that drugs like LSD can trigger through dopamine agonism.<p>There are probably hundreds of drugs that fall into these classes, and many of them have significant clinical data to derive their safety profiles from.<p>If someone comes into a hospital with a bad reaction to psychedelic drugs, it&#x27;s not uncommon for them to be given something like risperidone, both a 5-HT2A and D2 antagonist, and an anxiolytic to calm them down.
LockAndLolalmost 5 years ago
&gt;LSD has been classified in the vast majority of countries as a Schedule 1 illegal drug for more than 50 years, ever since the adoption of the United Nations&#x27; Convention on Psychotropic Substances.<p>&gt;That scheduling means regulators believe the drug has &quot;no currently accepted medical use&quot; — and according to scientists from Imperial College London&#x27;s Centre for Psychedelic Research, it&#x27;s had a hugely negative impact on LSD research.<p>The US fucked up a lot of research forcing other countries to sign that convention.
thanatos519almost 5 years ago
What was wrong with Niacin? 1500mg of Niacin stops it in less than 20 minutes for me.
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chasersalmost 5 years ago
Kind of defeats the purpose. If you can bail you don&#x27;t have to figure it out.
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KhoomeiKalmost 5 years ago
People regularly use Trazodone [1] as a trip killer. I personally haven&#x27;t and I don&#x27;t like using them, but it does its job pretty well from what I&#x27;ve heard.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Trazodone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Trazodone</a>
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yummypaintalmost 5 years ago
Now im curious how effective a placebo is at ending a bad trip
stanfordkidalmost 5 years ago
Wow. So basically they re-invented Xanax? :P<p>Joking aside, No way there is any chance that you would stick this in a human (huge potential for harm, no real clinical use case).<p>LSD is an insanely potent 5HT agonist, it seems highly unlikely any drug that is not &quot;serious&quot; would cause any significant reduction in LSD effects. Benzo&#x27;s like Xanax can make the trip go in a direction that is less negative... but you are still tripping balls.
prvcalmost 5 years ago
Are there typically lingering physiological effects on the brain after taking LSD? Would this counteract those, or merely the psychological aspects?
chillingeffectalmost 5 years ago
On a related note, lavender oil and theanine have recently been (preliminarily) shown to increase the likelihood of a good trip: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;shrooms&#x2F;comments&#x2F;gwh87x&#x2F;scientific_revelations_about_what_causes_good_and&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;shrooms&#x2F;comments&#x2F;gwh87x&#x2F;scientific_...</a><p>which references this article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41386-020-0718-8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;s41386-020-0718-8</a>
jokowueualmost 5 years ago
They aren&#x27;t being clear on what they are doing exactly but Why not just use Ketanserin. It&#x27;s what they have been using on mice for a while now .
dkmaralmost 5 years ago
note: i’m not a doctor or anything related.<p>Wikipedia says “5-HT2A antagonists block the psychedelic activity of LSD”[0], so wouldn’t 5-ht2a antagonists like mirtazapine work well enough here?<p>No idea as to how quickly the trip would be tempered, though<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lysergic_acid_diethylamide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lysergic_acid_diethylamide</a>
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34679almost 5 years ago
The old urban legend is that Vitamin D brings you down and Vitamin C, up. Milk if tripping too hard, orange juice to trip harder.
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renewiltordalmost 5 years ago
Xanax?
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steveharmanalmost 5 years ago
&quot;On April 1, MindMed announced...&quot;.<p>Haven&#x27;t their marketing droids heard of April Fool&#x27;s Day? Or is it just a UK thing...
stephenitisalmost 5 years ago
Not loading. Internet hug of death? Anyone describe what they are talking about?
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quickthrower2almost 5 years ago
I&#x27;ll stick to RCD trip off switches :-)
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dotcomaalmost 5 years ago
That&#x27;s terrible.<p>We&#x27;re going to have fewer &#x27;unicorns&#x27; ;-)