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An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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Post by mschuster91 »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #23
wreet wrote: post #2

We already have one. Give someone having a bad trip a Xanax and they're good.

How about alcohol? I’ve only had one third of a trip and towards the end whiskey took some of the edge off.

Never, ever, mix any other drug with alcohol - or for that matter don't mix any kind of drugs unless you are specifically aware of the purity, the amounts consumed and the interactions between the agents, and are under the supervision of a doctor.

If there is one thing that carries a real risk of fucking up (other than ODing) it is mix consumption.

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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Post by bluecalm »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #23
wreet wrote: post #2

We already have one. Give someone having a bad trip a Xanax and they're good.

How about alcohol? I’ve only had one third of a trip and towards the end whiskey took some of the edge off.

Some alcohol and some acid go well together imo. Alcohol surely doesn't stop the trip. Maybe it smoothens the come up a bit. I only do low doses of both though.

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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Post by sjnair96 »

wreet wrote: post #2

We already have one. Give someone having a bad trip a Xanax and they're good.

Antipsychotics seem theoretically (and by online accounts empirically) more effective. While benzos reduce the panic, antipsychotics would function more similarly to an off-switch.

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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Post by mathieuh »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #23
wreet wrote: post #2

We already have one. Give someone having a bad trip a Xanax and they're good.

How about alcohol? I’ve only had one third of a trip and towards the end whiskey took some of the edge off.

I've never been able to even contemplate eating while tripping and the idea of drinking alcohol while tripping turns my stomach, I find it much easier to just take some alprazolam or diazepam if things start getting out of hand. That's just me personally though, I've tripped with a guy who went and bought and ate a whole chicken while tripping...

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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Post by andybak »

mschuster91 wrote: post #31
dzhiurgis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about alcohol? I’ve only had one third of a trip and towards the end whiskey took some of the edge off.

Never, ever, mix any other drug with alcohol - or for that matter don't mix any kind of drugs unless you are specifically aware of the purity, the amounts consumed and the interactions between the agents, and are under the supervision of a doctor. If there is one thing that carries a real risk of fucking up (other than ODing) it is mix consumption.

> the interactions between the agents

Excellent general advice but in this case LSD is widely known to have no dangerous interactions with alcohol.

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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Post by fabiomaia »

entropyneur wrote: post #12

So no info on what it actually is. Just some company filing a patent. And the fact that they call it "a neutralizer technology" suggests that it's probably just a bunch of BS combined with previously known drugs to make it patentable. I'm pretty sure there's at least some published research on using at least one antipsychotic for that and mountains of "folk research" on using benzodiazepines.

Probably just benzodiazepines labeled "LSD off switch" to make money off the increasing interest in psychedelics.

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Post by Galaxeblaffer »

mathieuh wrote: post #34
dzhiurgis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about alcohol? I’ve only had one third of a trip and towards the end whiskey took some of the edge off.

I've never been able to even contemplate eating while tripping and the idea of drinking alcohol while tripping turns my stomach, I find it much easier to just take some alprazolam or diazepam if things start getting out of hand. That's just me personally though, I've tripped with a guy who went and bought and ate a whole chicken while tripping...

protip.. Try and force yourself to eat, it gives you one less thing for your body to be weird about.

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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Post by isoprophlex »

fiblye wrote: post #28
dzhiurgis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about alcohol? I’ve only had one third of a trip and towards the end whiskey took some of the edge off.

Yeah, I’ve found having a beer definitely takes away some anxiety/twitchiness and brings me back to reality a bit faster. But it was the same for me, towards the end of a trip. Not sure how it works for somehow rapidly being swallowed by the void.

In my experience, the acid smashes straight through the effects of the alcohol. I drank quite a lot during the peak once, it didnt affect me at all. (Mind you my trip was okay, no anxiety i wanted to get rid of.)

The tail end was pretty rough though, getting slammed back into reality AND a nasty hangover wasn't fun.

All in all it felt pretty pointless. Not recommended.

Re: An LSD Trip “Off-Switch” May Be Coming Soon

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Post by _bohm »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #23
wreet wrote: post #2

We already have one. Give someone having a bad trip a Xanax and they're good.

How about alcohol? I’ve only had one third of a trip and towards the end whiskey took some of the edge off.

In my experience, alcohol has no effect if taken mid-trip. Usually if I'm tripping I won't even notice the effects of alcohol at all; YMMV.
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