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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.205322.2451@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:53:22 GMT
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- wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec18.201240.173@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- : >wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp) writes:
- : >: inert in a biochemical sense. No-one has ever found a mechanism by which it is
- : >: directly toxic (according to the toxicology textbooks available to me,
- : >: anyway). That doesn't really matter, of course, because if you take too much,
- : >: or too often, then you end up like a cabbage (well, a good impression of a
- : >: catatonic schizophrenic, actually, but that's close enough).
- : >
- : >The latter factoid, as is common for such things, is false. Please point
- : >us to some medline documentation of these catatonic or vegetative lsd users.
- : >Previous searches have been unable to uncover any - except in places such as
- : >Reader's Disgust and similar literature.
- :
- : OK, sad lack of precision here on my part. There are *no* catatonic
- : schizophrenics any more (in the developed world, anyway), courtesy of the
- : major tranquilizers used to obviate the symptoms of schizophrenia.
- : However, you will find that every inner-city institution will have at least
- : one LSD-precipitated schizophrenic on its books, along with a few
- : PCP-precipitated phycoses and so on. The catatonia is relieved by the
- : chlorpromazine etc. BTW, there is a huge difference between catatonic
- : schizophrenic and vegetative (maybe not to look at, but in mechanisms and
- : so on...).
-
- As I stated, please point us to some medline documentation. I don't want
- just statements that such cases exist - I want documentary evidence. No
- one has, as yet, provided any. If they did exist, they would be written
- up as medical case studies. It should be rather easy for you to provide
- us with some citations.
-
- Bill
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