Ist eine Zunahme von Drogenpsychosen durch das legale LSD zu verzeichnen?
In der ARD kam eine interessante Dokumentation über einen Verkäufer von legalem LSD. Der muss da inzwischen Hunderttausende von Dosen verkauft haben. Wenn LSD so gefährlich ist, müsste es doch eigentlich eine Zunahme von Drogenpsychosen geben? Gibt es da irgendwo Bericht zu? Ansonsten wäre das ein Argument für die Freigabe von bestimmten halluzinogenen Wirkstoffen.
Good question. New LSD derivatives have gradually come out and come out, which have gradually been banned and become banned. It’s been like this for years. 1P-LSD has been launched in 2015. It would not surprise me if it were now millions of sold cans of “legal LSD”. Mr. Becker from the linked Doku is far from the only one who sells the stuff.
I have tried to understand a little how it is about the consumption of these substances and associated diagnosis. I looked at the main diagnostics from hospital data and addiction survey data.
First the diagnosis. I took everything that could be related to psychedelics. According to ICD-10, all F16s and T40.8 and T40.9 are relevant here.
T40.8 seems particularly relevant to me, which specifically states under influence or as a result of LSD (and probably also its derivatives).
So good. It’s been both higher than it is, and it’s a lot. Now to the consumption figures. The survey talks about LSD. I have assumed that respondents tend to include their derivatives.
Oh! This increase seems quite clear to me. This does not necessarily mean that more people consume, but can also mean that more people are committed to consumption if the underlying activity is no longer criminal, as is at least partly the case in the case of derivatives.
I find it particularly interesting that although the consumption figures seem to increase considerably, hospital stays with corresponding main diagnosis do not increase accordingly. Here is the comparison between consumption figures and all relevant diagnosis. It should be borne in mind that all ages are represented in the diagnoses and that only the 18- to 59-year-olds are present for consumers.
And here the comparison with T40.8.
What does that tell us now? I don’t know. Probably not much. I am not a statistician and the data situation is a bit too bad for my taste. The “Psychokalpyse” does not seem to have occurred.
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It may also have to do with the fact that you can order now completely and lift the various legal derivatives for a good opportunity. When you buy them in the disco or at the festival you will probably take them much more and faster. That would be my theory.
Also the micro-dosing is unlikely to contribute to psychosis, it is questionable whether it is somehow effective at all.
In principle, drug policy would have to observe the extremely tightly, there is hardly a better opportunity for mass studies
The Microdosing is a very good point! If you look at the Google searches, you can see a certain similarity to the LSD consumption curve. Going up again since 2015.
→ https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=DE&q=microdosing