A new case study in the journal Veterinary Medicine and Science suggests that very small doses of the psychedelic LSD appeared to ease a dog’s severe separation anxiety, reducing destructive behavior and shortening the duration of vocalizations.
Authors of the report said the results “suggest potential therapeutic efficacy of microdosing 1cp-LSD in managing canine anxiety,” though they acknowledged that future research is needed to validate the findings. They point out that anxiety is “prevalent in dogs, affecting an estimated one-fifth of the canine population.”
The subject of the new study was a 13-year-old female dog of mixed breed, whom researchers had previously administered a single microdose of 1cP-LSD—a semi-synthetic analogue of LSD with very similar psychoactive effects—”to observe the effects of the drug in the canine species, as no literature existed on this matter,” the paper says.
Results of the earlier experiment indicated the drug was “safe and effectively reduced anxiety in the animal,” authors wrote.
The current study evaluated the dog’s separation anxiety and how it changed over the course of a monthlong LSD treatment regimen. Using a points-based scale, researchers said the dog’s “anxiety score significantly decreased from 29 (severe) to 14 (moderate) after treatment.”
“A reduction in
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