Psychedelic Recovery

After tripping acid in 1955, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous Bill Wilson said of the experience; “LSD. deflates the ego in order to allow the influx of Gods grace.” A pioneer in many respects, Wilson became an early advocate of LSD use to facilitate recovery from alcohol addiction. This brought scrutiny from AA as an organization, and so acid never became an accepted element of the recovery movement.

Despite Efficacy in treating alcoholism with LSD has been shown in research, this approach has never gained a enthusiastic reception from the recovery community or the addiction treatment field…