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===Addiction and dependence liability=== LSD is widely considered to be non-addictive, despite its potential for [[Substance abuse|abuse]].<ref name="NHM-MDMA">{{cite book |vauthors=Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE |veditors=Sydor A, Brown RY |title=Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience |year=2009 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Medical |location=New York |isbn=9780071481274 |pages=375 |edition=2nd |chapter=Chapter 15: Reinforcement and Addictive Disorders |quote=Several other classes of drugs are categorized as drugs of abuse but rarely produce compulsive use. These include psychedelic agents, such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PjgfBQAAQBAJ |access-date=June 12, 2023 |archive-date=August 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230828020503/https://books.google.com/books?id=PjgfBQAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="pmid14761703"/><ref name="Lus2006">{{cite journal |vauthors=Lรผscher C, Ungless MA |title=The mechanistic classification of addictive drugs |journal=PLOS Medicine |volume=3 |issue=11 |pages=e437 |date=November 2006 |pmid=17105338 |pmc=1635740 |doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030437 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="clinicalLSD"/> Attempts to train laboratory animals to [[self-administer]] LSD have been largely unsuccessful.<ref name="pmid14761703"/> Although tolerance to LSD builds up rapidly, a [[withdrawal syndrome]] does not appear, suggesting that a potential syndrome does not necessarily relate to the possibility of acquiring rapid tolerance to a substance.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Balestrieri A, Fontanari D |date=September 1959 |doi=10.1001/archpsyc.1959.03590030063008 |pages=279โ282 |pmid=13796178 |title=Acquired and crossed tolerance to mescaline, LSD-25, and BOL-148|journal=Archives of General Psychiatry | volume=1 |issue=3}}</ref> A report examining [[substance use disorder]] for [[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders|DSM-IV]] noted that almost no hallucinogens produced dependence, unlike psychoactive drugs of other classes such as [[stimulants]] and [[depressant]]s.<ref name="pmid29366418">{{cite journal |journal=Current Neuropharmacology |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=1โ15 |title=Ayahuasca: Psychological and Physiologic Effects, Pharmacology and Potential Uses in Addiction and Mental Illness |doi=10.2174/1570159X16666180125095902 |doi-access=free |issn=1875-6190 |vauthors=Hamill J, Hallak J, Dursun SD, Baker G |year=2019 |pmid=29366418| pmc=6343205}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |journal=Addiction |publisher=Society for the Study of Addiction |vauthors=Morgenstern J, Langenbucher J, Labouvie E |date=September 1994 |title=The generalizability of the dependence syndrome across substances: an examination of some properties of the proposed DSM-IV dependence criteria |volume=89 |issue=9 |pages=1105โ1113 |doi=10.1111/j.1360-0443.1994.tb02787.x |pmid=7987187}}</ref>
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