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

• Nursie 6y ago
  Do benzodiazepines actually switch it off, or just allow the participant to relax (and maybe sleep it off)?
  • Tenoke 6y ago
    Bit of both but more the latter.
  • TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago
    In my experience they turn the trip off. You can still be awake, but you won’t be tripping any more, the sleep only comes if you actually lay down and try to go to sleep or take a large enough dose of benzos.
    • wreet 6y ago
      Same. I've never had to use it to abort a trip personally, but I've seen it done and the person said it turned it off too.
  • merlehaggard 6y ago
    They dampen the effects and quell the anxiety, and depending on what stage of the trip you're in and how hard you're tripping they may effectively kill it entirely. I would take a bit of valium on the tail end of a trip to sleep or quiet my brain as it reconstituted itself after being atomized into the cosmos. I only took benzos once during the upward trajectory of a trip near the peak, after suffering physical panic symptoms from a strong batch of wild-picked wavy caps (first and only time I've felt physically threatened by a psychedelic). It didn't kill the trip, but it killed the panic and allowed me to enjoy the experience.
• JimBlackwood 6y ago
  Some magnesium tablets also work great.
• throwaway287391 6y ago
  Interesting, I didn't know that. Now I wish I'd had a Xanax after my one trip which kept me awake until 4-5 am after taking acid around noon (otherwise it was an incredible day, it was just annoying not being able to sleep). Don't benzos have some pretty nasty side effects and/or dependency potential though? Maybe this drug is a bit more targeted / less risky?
  • np_tedious 6y ago
    Dependency issues, some memory loss, coordination. Real concerns if you're going to take it every day or drive or something. Nothing that would present a serious issue for this kind of occasional use.
  • W4ldi 6y ago
    Xanax is a short-acting benzodiazepine
  • layoutIfNeeded 6y ago
    Benzos are given to hundreds of millions of people every year, so they're pretty safe in my opinion. But they must not be taken for longer than a few weeks and/or in high doses! Because if you stop them cold turkey, you can die from the withdrawal effects (seizures).
    • W4ldi 6y ago
      Thing with most drugs is - we barely know which long-term/not clearly traceable side effects they have. We have these big issues like heart attacks, strokes, cancer, mental issues, gene defects - all of which don't have obvious causes but surely increased with pollution, drugs and chemicals
      • goatsi 6y ago
        We are starting to find out the long-term effects of benzos, and it doesn't look good: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6325366/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6325366/
• dzhiurgis 6y ago
  How about alcohol? I’ve only had one third of a trip and towards the end whiskey took some of the edge off.
  • fiblye 6y ago
    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.
    • isoprophlex 6y ago
      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.
    • dzhiurgis 6y ago
      "He need sum milk" also comes to mind
  • mschuster91 6y ago
    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.
    • andybak 6y ago
      > the interactions between the agents Excellent general advice but in this case LSD is widely known to have no dangerous interactions with alcohol.
    • esperent 6y ago
• forgotmypw17 6y ago
  Or a bit of MDMA
  • LilBytes 6y ago
    This does not get you out of a trip. This is called candy clipping and has the opposite affect.
    • jacob019 6y ago
      candy flipping
      • LilBytes 6y ago
        Typo, yeah :)
    • philg_jr 6y ago
      This combination could be described as getting strapped into a rocket ship with (silent) fireworks going off inside repeatedly. Whew.
  • dylkil 6y ago
    this will lengthen the trip by alot
  • xutopia 6y ago
    MDMA will not reduce the effects of LSD but remove the element of fear and bring your imagination into more pleasant areas. This is something that Rick Doblin, the founder of MAPS, describes in the latest Tim Ferriss podcast.
    • jokowueu 6y ago
      Just wanted to say thanks for bringing attention to this interview . I really enjoy Rick's thoughts on these issues
  • thoughtpalette 6y ago
• sjnair96 6y ago
  Antipsychotics seem theoretically (and by online accounts empirically) more effective. While benzos reduce the panic, antipsychotics would function more similarly to an off-switch.
  • elevenoh 6y ago
    Yep
• DanBC 6y ago
  Benzos can have a paradoxical effect of increasing distress and disturbance.