LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches'

Posted by timothy on Monday June 27, 2011 @05:02PM 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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Confirmed. by Frosty+Piss · 2011-06-27 17:07 · 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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Re:House, MD. by yarnosh · 2011-06-27 18:16 · Score: 5, Funny

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