Can you actually end an acid trip? you DO get emergencies, you know!

According to the original product data sheet when LSD was legal, the official antidote is a anti psychotic/major tranquilliser substance called chlorpromazine (trade name Largactil), which is a Schedule 5 drug in South Africa.

This is a central nervous system depressant which can be injected or taken orally.They mix the same stuff with pethidine as your premedication before anaesthesia before you get an operation. It is also used to sedate aggressive/uncontrollable people (usually schizophrenics).

Since you can't exactly buy this over the counter, you are most likely forced to try look for alternatives. Apart from a change of scene, positive conversation, or any other influences in your current perception, which are supposed to help, one could also grab at any of the commonly abused tranquillising substances. (Mild sleeping pills, tranquillisers etc.)

Grabbing at these substances are a matter of escapism though, so if you have to repeat this a few times one should rather skip LSD for a little while and try figure out why you're not having a pleasant trip in the first place.

Remember, the trip is in your brain and you WILL come down in a matter of time. Problems can, and do arise for poly-drug use, so be very careful about downers.

Bad Trip antidote urban legends such as orange juice, vanilla essence, vitamin C, and anti-histamines can have a placebo effect (ie they have a psychological effect and not a physiological effect), and sometimes work in making an unhappy tripper think they have done something to make it all better.

If it is a matter of a medical emergency, you should seek professional help, that is go and see a doctor or clock into hospital and tell them the truth as to what has been taken. Chances are that they will act professionally and help you.

 

See also:

• Bad Trip - How to end one
  
  
• RaveSafe page on Acid
  
  
  

 

Added 4th August 1999

 

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