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Adolescent Hallucinogen Use Drops Considerably
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America’s first War On Drugs was launched in 1920 with the enactment of the Dangerous Drug Act by Congress. Laws to ban over-the-counter sales of narcotics and cocaine were slammed into effect across the country. By the 1950’s drug abuse was banished from America’s consciousness for the most part. Although this campaign leaned solely on scare tactics and severe legal penalties for drug users and pushers, it did seem to work and lay to rest the destructive narcotics giant. America began to breathe a sigh of relief. Unfortunately, what the American public did not know was that shortly after the Dangerous Drug Act was put into effect, a Dr. Albert Hoffman was busy discovering a drug more mind-damaging than any chemical before it. This drug was LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide). This powerful hallucinogenic drug would eventually catapult American culture into a drug crisis from which it has yet to recover. Although Dr. Hoffman actually developed this drug in the late 1920’s, the true mind-altering properties on humans were not realized until he sampled the drug himself in 1943; Hoffman’s famous account of his bicycle ride through the streets of Basel, Switzerland, while under the influence of LSD became a big hit and ended up being published in psychiatric publications around the world. The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a report entitled “LSD In The U.S. - The Drug.” In this report the DEA states: “Sandoz Laboratories, the drug’s sole producer began marketing LSD in 1947
under the trade name “Delysid” and it was introduced into the United States a
year later. Sandoz marketed LSD as a psychiatric cure-all and “hailed it as a
cure for everything from schizophrenia to criminal behavior, ‘sexual perversions’, and alcoholism. In fact, Sandoz, in its LSD-related literature, suggested psychiatrists take the drug themselves in order to “gain an understanding of the subjective experiences of the schizophrenic.” In psychiatry, the use of LSD by students became an accepted practice; it was viewed as a teaching tool in an attempt to understand schizophrenia.” No other drug in history received the degree of attention and support from the psychiatric community as LSD did. No other drug in history was used so broadly by the very medical practitioners that were prescribing it in an attempt to treat their patients. The Sandoz Chemical Company went as far as promoting LSD as a potential secret chemical warfare weapon to the U.S. Government. Their main selling point in this was that a small amount in a main water supply or sprayed in the air could disorient and turn psychotic an entire company of soldiers leaving them harmless and unable to fight. LSD had risen to a drug of prominence within the psychiatric community long before the drug ever found its way to the streets. It was, in fact, this endorsement that set the stage for LSD’s acceptance into a large sector of American culture. There is no doubt that the actions taken by the manufacturer of the drug and those LSD proponents within the psychiatric community were what kicked off the marketing campaign to promote LSD to the public at large. By the end of the 60’s, the sleeping giant of drug abuse would awaken to the LSD anthem and re-launch America into a drug crisis, which would leave millions of young people emotionally scarred and American society changed forever. Now…
Decades later, the 2003 Monitoring The Future survey brings good news. Riding on successful community-based approaches to prevention and rehabilitation backed by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the use of hallucinogenic drugs by teenagers has declined substantially over the last two years. In fact, lifetime use of LSD among adolescents plummeted by 43% and use of ecstasy dropped by 32% over the last two years. The report credits law enforcement for the decline of LSD due to the perceived availability and successful prevention efforts for the drop in ecstasy. Often times young people become very curious about a drug, especially one that appears less dangerous as far as physical dependence. The fact is that hallucinogens are more damaging to a person because the effects could last forever. The true dangers must be communicated in an age-appropriate manner to stop the widespread use, and that is what appears to be happening regarding ecstasy, which is another drug that was once promoted by the psychiatric community for supposed therapeutic qualities. |
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