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#LSD increases pain tolerance, could replace opiates: study

#LSD increases pain tolerance, could replace opiates: study

August 31, 2020 | 3:39pm

A little bit of hallucinogen can go a long way in alleviating physical pain.

New research has found that a microdose of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) significantly increases human pain tolerance and decreases feelings of unpleasantness. In a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, scientists found that subjects on 5, 10 and 20 micrograms of LSD were able to keep their hands in freezing water 20 percent longer than those on a placebo.

This, authors hope, is a sign that the hallucinogen may one day be able to serve as an alternative pain treatment to opioids, which continue to be widely prescribed despite being extremely addictive.

“That would be of interest . . . To see if low doses of LSD could actually replace an opioid and at least reduce the addiction potential, because LSD has no addiction potential,” the study’s first author, professor Johannes Ramaekers of the Netherlands’ Maastricht University, told Inverse.

Substituting acid for opiates wouldn’t mean patients would need to get trippy: The three doses administered to study participants were so low, they had hardly any of the psychedelic effects most associated with the drug.

“Anyone on any of these doses could sit behind a computer and do their work,” Ramaekers told the news site. “It’s not really mind-altering or bringing hallucinations.”

At most, a person on such a low dose of LSD may perceive colors to be slightly brighter than they would when sober, Ramaekers said.

As for why LSD has this apparent ability to minimize discomfort, researchers suspect three potential reasons: That LSD minimizes users’ sense of self and thus their ability to process what they’re experiencing as uncomfortable; that microdoses increase blood pressure, which has previously been linked to increased pain tolerance; and that LSD interacts with serotonin receptors in a way which reduces the amount of pain signals received by the brain.

“The present study provides evidence of a protracted [pain-relieving] effect of LSD at a dose that is low enough to avoid a psychedelic experience,” the authors concluded.

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