The Post-Lsd Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment
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Edwin I. Roth
Dr. Roth was born and raised in East Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Adelbert College and The Medical School of Case Western Reserve University. He then trained in Pediatrics at Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx, New York, and was drafted from his Residency to serve in the USAF during the Cuban MIssile Crisis. He served in Spain and Morocco in The Strategic Air Command (SAC) as a Pediatrician. Upon his discharge, he returned to Cleveland for a Residency in Psychiatry and a Fellowship in Child Psychiatry at University Hospitals of Cleveland. After a year as Child Psychiatric Consultant to B&C Hospital, he became Director of the Child Psychiatric OPD for six years. He became a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology and of the American Board of Child Psychiatry. He went into full time private practice in 1975 and was a Treatment Team Leader at Bellefaire Residential Treatment Center, and a Consultant to Cuyahoga County's Juvenile Court, Metzenbaum Children's Center, and Hudson Boys' School for many years. His main focus, however, has been direct clinical practice. He graduated from the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Insititute in both Adult and Child Psychoanalysis, and has engaged in the full time practice of Adult, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry and Adult and Child Psychoanalysis for over 30 years. After relocating to Palm Desert in southern California in 1997, Dr. Roth began to become aware of the patients who became the subject of this book. Working in his private practice and a as a part-time Psychiatrist for Riverside County Mental Health and then for the California Department of Corrections at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison, he came in contact with patients who presented a different pathology than he had noted before. He became incresingly aware of the existence of this condition, The Post-LSD Syndrome, and its surprising lack of recognition. He then researched the literature intensively, only to find a lack of recognition in the literature. Because of the severity of the disturbance, its attendant suffering, and the relative treatability of the condition, Dr. Roth felt The Post-LSD Sydrome should be brought to public attention.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This book is ridiculous. There is no such thing as “post LSD syndrome”. Just a psychiatrist trying to sell pharmies by inventing a disorder. His so-called “case studies” are ludicrous. Anyone who has ever had LSD could tell you that. Nothing to see here. If you are interested in good info about LSD, take a look at “LSD: My Problem Child” by Albert Hofmann.
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The Post-Lsd Syndrome - Edwin I. Roth
© 2011 by Edwin I. Roth, M.D. All rights reserved.
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First published by AuthorHouse 10/06/2011
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Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Bibliography
Author Biography
I am dedicating this book
To My Wife Katherine, whose charm and support have been invaluable.
Foreword
I have decided to write this small volume about this generally-unrecognized condition, which I have named The Post-LSD Syndrome, in the hope of assisting several groups of people. First, I wish to enlighten those who are unaware that they are experiencing and suffering from the chronic effects of LSD, so that they may seek the correct treatment which can help them. To accomplish this, I describe the various clinical situations in which the chronic effects of LSD can be manifest. I hope the descriptions of these clinical situations will facilitate former users of LSD to recognize themselves and the true nature of their painful pathology. I hope that they will realize that although they may have forgotten they used LSD, the effects of the drug are not gone. Secondly, I wish to inform physicians and mental health professionals of the existence of The Post-
LSD Syndrome, its symptoms, its cause, and its treatment. It is remarkable to me that this condition has been basically unrecognized, and patients have not received effective treatment. There appears to be an inherent resistance to the recognition of this condition, which I hope this book can begin to alter. Thirdly, I wish to enlighten spouses, parents, other relatives, and friends so that they may encourage their loved ones to seek proper treatment. And fourthly, I wish to warn those potential users of LSD of the severe dangers of LSD, which now includes The Post-LSD Syndrome, in the hope of deterring them from using a destructive drug.
Chapter 1
The Clinical Syndrome
I want to bring attention to a generally unrecognized condition which results in a serious, at times severe, dysfunction in people who have experienced LSD previously. I have termed this condition The Post-LSD Syndrome. The bad news is that there is a severe condition, The Post-LSD Syndrome, which can occur as a result of even a single exposure to LSD, even decades after the exposure. The good news is that it can be relatively easily treated. I have gradually become aware of this condition over a course of more than 40 years of private and institutional practice of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, particularly in the last ten years, and have now recognized more than 300 patients with this condition. Surprisingly, after a lengthy search of the literature, I have found nothing in the literature which specifically describes The Post-LSD Syndrome, and there are only a handful of cases in the literature which touch on the problem indirectly.
As I see it, The Post-LSD Syndrome (The Syndrome) is a discrete, unique syndrome which encompasses a particular group of severe symptoms which can be viewed as a triad of 1) a severe sleep disturbance, 2) a severe anxiety state which often is tantamount to a panic state, and 3) mental instability, i.e., impaired ego functioning and emotional instability. Some patients experience an acute onset with extreme distress, panic, and psychotic-like symptoms, while others have a gradual progression of symptoms over months or even years. Many patients experience these symptoms severely in a chronic form for years, and often resort to various measures such as medications, alcohol, or drugs to relieve the distressing symptoms, particularly the severe anxiety.
Etiologically, the Post-LSD Syndrome is a long-term consequence of LSD usage which has resulted in LSD interfering with brain function, occurring from a few months to decades after even only a single exposure to LSD. Some patients report having been long-term, heavy users of LSD for years, while others report they used LSD for a short period of time, and then decided to stop it because it didn’t do much for them. On closer examination, these latter patients often can identify that they began to feel unstable when using LSD which caused them to discontinue its use. A few patients initially report they never used LSD, but then can recall having a bad trip which had symptoms of acute LSD toxicity, and felt at the time that something had been slipped to them without their knowledge or consent.
The Manifestations of The Post-LSD Syndrome:
The following is