What is the number of deaths associated with LSD?

Answer 1

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None, the amount of LSD needed to overdose is not available on the streets.

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The dangers of using LSD include:

1. Panic Attacks
2. Paranoia (up to 72 hours after the drug wears off)
3. Mental Unbalance (can last from a week to many years)
4. Heart Failure (fatal convulsions) (this is a rare reaction)
5. Accidental Death or Injury

When on LSD the user may think they can fly or float and leap from a tall height and fall to their death. A user may also think they are invincible and walk in front of moving cars and be injured or die.

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It is certainly possible to have a fatal accident while hallucinating. But that is why the number 1 rule for using hallucinogens is, "Have at least one sober person around to keep you safe."

Stories about people accidentally killing themselves on LSD are much more myth than fact.

You have probably heard the urban legend about the kid who took too much acid the first time, and spent the rest of his life in a mental institution, thinking he was a glass of Orange Juice and terrified that he would spill himself? Or the stories about people staring into the sun until they went blind, because they were tripping on acid and didn't know any better? Or the story about the babysitter who roasted the baby in the oven, because she was high on LSD and thought the baby was a roast beef?

Or the stories about people on acid thinking that 15th-story windows are doors, and walking out to their death. Most of us have heard these stories. And none of them are true. The true story is that there was a girl living in West Hollywood, in the late 1960s (her name was Diane Linkletter; see the Related Link below "snopes.com - Death of Diane Linkletter"), who jumped out her window and killed herself on October 4, 1969.

The family could not accept that it was a suicide, so, they started making up stories about her being on LSD. They claimed that she would never have killed herself on purpose, that it had to be the LSD she was taking. Problem is, there was never any evidence that she was even taking LSD!! Clearly, the family was misguided by their grief and their disbelief that their beloved daughter/sister would leave them on purpose.

From this one incident came the barrage of claims that "LSD is a deadly dangerous drug" and that it causes "all kinds of fatal accidents."

Again, LSD can indeed be dangerous. But when examining the dangers, it is important to separate myth from actual fact.

Answer 2

Compared with drugs such as cannabis and prescription narcotics, LSD is fairly uncommon. However, a small percentage of teenagers report using the drug.

Answer 3

There's one LSD overdose, and that guy injected 320,000 micrograms of LSD by mistake (he thought it was speed).