Just 1 dose of LSD could relieve anxiety for months, trial finds
- bigrickstuart
- Sep 30, 2025
- 1 min read
not too little and not too much the study says
livescience.com says
A single dose of the psychedelic drug LSD may ease generalized anxiety disorder for months, a clinical trial has found.
The trial results, published Thursday (Sept. 4) in JAMA, include data from 194 people with moderate to severe anxiety across the U.S. The study compared these participants' responses to different doses of LSD against a placebo treatment. It found that the drug alleviated symptoms in many patients for at least three months after just one exposure.
That said, participants who were given low doses of LSD — either 25 or 50 micrograms — did not see a significant change in their symptoms. The effect kicked in only at higher doses — either 100 or 200 micrograms — and those given 100-microgram doses had the best results.
