The BBC website is reporting on a scientific paper published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology that suggests that just one dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD could help alcoholics give up drinking. The study, which analysed the results of six 1960’s trials involving more than five hundred patients, found that there was a significant, and relatively long lasting, effect on alcohol abuse.
You can read the full report here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17297714.