OSLO - In a country so wary of drug abuse that it limits the sale of aspirin, Pal-Orjan Johansen, a Norwegian researcher, is pushing what would seem a doomed cause: the rehabilitation of LSD.

It matters little to him that the psychedelic drug has been banned here and around the world for more than 40 years. Mr. Johansen pitches his effort not as a throwback to the hippie hedonism of the 1960s, but as a battle for human rights and good health.

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Is dropping acid a reasonable way to deal with a drinking problem?

Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's department of neuroscience think there's some merit to the idea.

They've gone through data from experiments conducted in the 1960s and 1970s, and say there is evidence that subjects given LSD were more likely to make progress in dealing with a harmful alcohol habit.

Their paper, published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, took a broad look at six different experimental trials, including one in Canada in 1966, involving 536 subjects being treated for alcohol problems.

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LSD Could Treat Addictions, Norwegian Study Suggests

Is dropping acid a reasonable way to deal with a drinking problem?

Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's department of neuroscience think there's some merit to the idea.

They've gone through data from experiments conducted in the 1960s and 1970s and say there is evidence that subjects given LSD were more likely to make progress in dealing with a harmful alcohol habit.

Their paper, published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, took a broad look at six different experimental trials - including one in Canada in 1966 - involving 536 subjects being treated for alcohol problems.

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