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LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches'

Posted by timothy on from the why-do-you-say-even dept.

sciencehabit writes "Patients suffering from the agony of cluster headaches will take anything to dull the pain, even LSD, it turns out. Results from a pilot study reveal that six patients treated with 2-bromo-LSD, a nonhallucinogenic analog of LSD, showed a significant reduction in cluster headaches per day; some were free of the attacks for weeks or months. And some of these patients are still reporting significant relief more than a year after they were treated with the compound." I'm told, by people with reason to know, that the hallucinogenic variety has the same effect on cluster headaches.

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  1. Confirmed. by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, I can tell you from personal experience that LSD does indeed (at least for me) help knock back "cluster" headaches. The only real problem for me was the ensuing giant insects.

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  2. Re:House, MD. by davester666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    > The episode in question in s03e23, titled "The Jerk".

    Shouldn't EVERY episode of House be titled "The Jerk"? Or was this referring to someone besides House?

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  3. Re:House, MD. by yarnosh · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Sauer." It is German for "acid." LSD is a German acronym.

  4. Re:House, MD. by yarnosh · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's nothing like 3 years of high school German and 5 years of taking LSD to round out an education.