Re: MAPS: Query: Niacin and LSD

[Peter Webster <vignes@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 18:13 30/05/99 EDT, LotsofHS@xxxxxxx wrote:
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>In a message dated 5/30/99 12:57:31 AM, pfe@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>At Wed, 26 May 1999 07:56:04 -0400 (EDT), drpretorius 
>><drpretorius@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 
>>> My advice would be to avoid niacin, but instead opt for niacinamide. 

>I don't recall exactly where the information about niacin utilization for 
>coming down from LSD came from.

>From the latest MAPS Bulletin, the research of Oscar Janiger. In the
interview we read:

R: And then we did another one on blocking LSD. We loaded the subject with
different substances to see if we could block the action of the LSD. We
failed in a number of cases, but two outstanding cases were that high doses
of niacin blocked LSD and--this was a surprise--high doses of progesterone
were a buffer against LSD.

I: Large doses of niacin blocked LSD?

R: Large doses, yes. I think a thousand or two thousand milligrams.

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