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>"He explained that he would have on hand a drug that could neutralize the hallucinogen, if necessary." How is right now the first time I have heard of this?
by ouid 6y ago
>"He explained that he would have on hand a drug that could neutralize the hallucinogen, if necessary."
How is right now the first time I have heard of this?
- TylerE 6y agoBecause it doesn’t exist. What they really mean when they say something like this is a high dose benzodiazepine.
- _jcrossley 6y agoThey might be referring to an antipsychotic like olanzapine https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26216558/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26216558/
- loves_mangoes 6y agoThis echoes the popular wisdom that benzos can only mollify hallucinations to make them bearable, and then force a black-out at higher dosage. Antipsychotics (like Seroquel & Olanzapine) on the other hand make the visuals and 'shadow people' (hallucinations resulting from lack of sleep) disappear, forcefully flinging people back to a semblance of reality, and then to uncomfortable sleep.
- loceng 6y agoMaps.org founder Rick Doblin's recommendation if someone is having a bad experience with Ayahuasca [or other psychedelic] is to give them a half therapeutic dose of MDMA; therapeutic dose is 100-125mg.