Are Psychedelics Addictive? | Are Psychedelics Physically Dangerous?
Channel: Real Talk Philosophy
Date: 2021-07-20

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Some claim that psychedelic use is addictive. But researchers now consider psychedelics to be non-addictive.  

The intensity of the psychedelic trip dissuades most people from wanting to repeat the experience quickly.  Also, the human body quickly builds tolerance to LSD, meaning that if you trip today, tomorrow you will need much more LSD, and more the next day. And the molecular makeup of LSD and psilocybin are so similar, cross-tolerance occurs between them. Meaning that if you trip on LSD today, you’ll need many more psychedelic mushrooms tomorrow.  

And “attempts to train animals to self-administer hallucinogens, an animal model that can predict abuse liability, have generally been unsuccessful.” When a rat is given water mixed with cocaine, it will continue drinking the cocaine water until it dies. When a rat is given water mixed with LSD, it drinks the LSD water once, then never drinks it again.  

In fact, psychedelics are considered “anti-addictive,” meaning they can be used to counter addictions to other substances like alcohol, nicotine, opiates, etc. 

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