experiments to test LSD with psychotherapy as treatment for alcoholic patients. This work was backed by the State Hospital Alcoholic Rehabilitation Unit. The findings of this experiment were published four years later in 1967. According to the experimenters themselves, the rationale for using psychedelics to treat alcoholic patients is in the "clinical picture" presented in the features of alcoholic patients. Various personality types such as "neurotic, psychopathic, and schizoid" were thought to have a vulnerability that led to their addiction to alcohol. These individuals were perceived as having a weakened ability to "handle psychological stress, tensions, and frustrations." They also believed that LSD would allow psychiatrists to open memories and emotions to restore and alter the brain and mind, but only under certain conditions. The Spring Grove experiment was conducted in Cottage 13, a building on the Spring Grove State Hospital grounds. The environment in Cottage 13 was constructed so that it emitted a positive and optimistic atmosphere to ensure that the patients did not have a negative experience while taking the LSD treatment. Even the sounds, smells, and objects in Cottage 13 were carefully conditioned. Before treatment, the patients were screened after mental breakdowns to determine if they were eligible for LSD treatment. Then they were given a microscopic dose of LSD in Cottage 13. During the 14-hour treatment, the patients underwent psychotherapy so that psychiatrists could attempt to identify underlying conflicts. In addition to the psychotherapy, patients also underwent psychiatric tests so that researchers could determine other effects of LSD, such as changes in IQ scores. Those who observed the experiments in Cottage 13 encouraged the continuation of it. One such individual was Dr. John Buckman, who claimed that "the treatment procedure seemed to be returning the patients to the human race." The results show that no patients were harmed. After six months, 33% of patients remained abstinent after LSD treatment, as opposed to the previous statistic of 12% under conventional therapy. In 1965, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) television network produced a documentary called "LSD: The Spring Grove Experiment." LSD experimentation on the patients of Spring Grove became a part of the growing conversation on drugs. The success of this documentary led to an insurgence of federal funding that would go into building a new research center in 1969, called the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. Expansion The success of the trials resulted in an expansion of the