> Wasn't LSD used in this way prior to being declared
> illegal? Generating a bad trip focused around alcohol
> abuse or something of that nature?
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Yes, although the term 'bad trip' only came to the fore once the drug hit the streets. Gregory Bateson [ex OSS] was the guy who gave the founder of AA his trips. See Bateson's classic papers on alcoholism and the self in "Steps to an Ecology of Mind"
Ian