Sam

For this social justice project i have chosen an issue that was brought to my attention from a National Geographic documentary about LSD. There is a very serious condition that people suffer from called "cluster headaches" which are arguably the worst and most painful kind of headaches. There even sometimes called "suicide headaches" because there so bad, and some scientist say it is the most painful condition to known medical science. Sufferers are faces with these terrible headaches that last from 30 minutes to 2 hours, on average 2 or three times a day. The pain can be explained to be like something boring into the temple or right behind the eye and can spread to the neck and shoulders. Now personally, I've had some terrible headaches, but from the experiences I've read pretaining to these headaches, nothing can comete with the pain these people suffer. The worst part about this condition is the only treatment methods don't work very well and there is no cure, or at least no legal cure. There was a study done using 2-Bromo-LSD, a non phycadelic form of LSD, were around 50% of those tested experienced a complete end to their cluster headache cycle. Completely cured. The only problem with this is that because LSD is illegal and any more studies cannot be done to find a way to use this cure that has so much potential. This is clearly unjust and needs to have something done about it.



sources:

http://www.headaches.org/blog/?tag=bol-2-bromo-lsd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_headache

http://www.clusterheadaches.com/about.html#Periodicity%20and%20Duration%20of%20the%20Attacks