Fear of contamination from LSD

I have OCD and I hang out with friends that do LSD. I heard that LSD liquid can be absorbed through the skin. I don't know if it's true or not, i've searched google and found many mixed answers. My OCD is telling me that when I bring certain friends in my car that I know does LSD, i start getting anxious and worried that whatever they touch in my car (doorknob, radio, volume control, etc) through incidental contact, might be absorbed through my skin if I touch the same things they touch. I find out that the guy who discovered it dosed himself with LSD by accident, and guess what? The way he got high was that he absorbed the lsd liquid through his skin too. So now as you can see why this really triggers my OCD. I don't know whether I should give in and just wipe down my car with water completely (since I know that water breaks down lsd).

If I do that, I know theres a high chance of making the obsession and anxiety worse since I know I'm gonna end up wiping it down more than once because it didn't feel "right" the first time. Then during the process of wiping down my car, I might be too tense since I want to make sure I clean everything perfectly which leads to me accidentally "contaminating" other surfaces/objects in my car that I have to wipe down again and again..if you have OCD, you know what I'm talking about. Also, I know its gonna give me less anxiety after I wipe it down but only temporary because I know giving in to these cleaning compulsions makes my OCD worse. Compulsions only provide brief relief. But if I don't clean it-if I don't give in to my compulsion, I run the risk of accidentally dosing myself with LSD. And the reason why I don't want to be contaminated with lsd in my system is because I know LSD can make existing mental problems (such as OCD or anxiety) worse. And it can bring out other underlying mental problems if you have it. And I guess I'm so worried about getting dosed by accident is because I heard LSD changes your personality. I like my personality, which is why it gives me another reason to be anxious...another part of my obsession is if I take lsd, it might change my personality for the worse.

And I know the chances of me getting dosed by accident by touching the same things that my friends touch after they have handled lsd is kinda slim but its the fact that I know there's a small risk that I can get drugged unintentionally. Even if the risk is not big, like if theres just a slim probability that the lsd can absorb through my skin, i will still have anxiety because my OCD makes me feel like I need to have PERFECT or close to perfect certainty that the obsessive thought won't happen. Also, if I have a chance of controlling variables and outcomes to prevent the obsessive thought from actually happening, it will make me even more anxious because I'm gonna have a strong urge to do that particular compulsion to make EXTRA sure that the obsessive thought will be prevented from happening.

So what should I do? Do you guys think theres a good risk of being exposed to lsd if I don't wipe my car down?

And if I do wipe my car down, I might have less anxiety but not for long because I know its gonna make my obsessive thought and anxiety worse.

My brain hurts from overthinking all the possibilities that can happen if I do one or the other.

onepunch wrote:Do you guys think theres a good risk of being exposed to lsd if I don't wipe my car down?

Absolutely not. While it's true that in liquid form LSD can de absorbed transdermally, it doesn't work the other way around. People under the influence don't have it seep out of their skin. You could kiss a tripping person and not an iota of the drug will enter your body. You could lick them, if you so desire, and you won't get high. Go ahead and lick every inch of the interior of your car. You may get sick, but you won't get high.

Additionally, Albert Hoffman was dosed by being exposed to a rather large amount in liquid form. LSD is incredibly potent. The dose necessary for intoxication is so small that it can barely be seen by the naked eye. I doubt anyone, except for chemists and people with incredibly good connections has ever even seen liquid acid. I don't know in what form LSD is sold these days, but I'm assuming it's still blotter. Maybe if you were all sweaty and you rubbed a whole sheet on your skin you might get dosed, but it's kind of hard to do that by accident.

If your fears were true, contact highs from tripping people would be a known fact at best, an urban legend at worst.

I assure you that you have nothing to worry about.

naps wrote:

onepunch wrote:Do you guys think theres a good risk of being exposed to lsd if I don't wipe my car down?

Absolutely not. While it's true that in liquid form LSD can de absorbed transdermally, it doesn't work the other way around. People under the influence don't have it seep out of their skin. You could kiss a tripping person and not an iota of the drug will enter your body. You could lick them, if you so desire, and you won't get high. Go ahead and lick every inch of the interior of your car. You may get sick, but you won't get high.

Additionally, Albert Hoffman was dosed by being exposed to a rather large amount in liquid form. LSD is incredibly potent. The dose necessary for intoxication is so small that it can barely be seen by the naked eye. I doubt anyone, except for chemists and people with incredibly good connections has ever even seen liquid acid. I don't know in what form LSD is sold these days, but I'm assuming it's still blotter. Maybe if you were all sweaty and you rubbed a whole sheet on your skin you might get dosed, but it's kind of hard to do that by accident.

If your fears were true, contact highs from tripping people would be a known fact at best, an urban legend at worst.

I assure you that you have nothing to worry about.

I'm not worried about the lsd seeping out of people's bodies and going into my car. I'm worried that after they touch/handle the lsd tabs, and then they go into my car and touch the interior of my car and if I accidentally touch what they touched, then it could absorb through my skin by accident. What do you think? Do you think that sounds irrational? I kinda think it is a little irrational but my OCD makes me doubt whether not the thought is rational or irrational.

Yeah it's irrational because it's pretty much impossible. The drug is absorbed onto the blotter and dries there. It's not like some alien virus that keeps potentiating continuously. If there was a risk of transdermal dosing from handling blotter, it would be wrapped in plastic or something. Myself, I remember rolling blotter hits around in my fingers until it was a little ball. I never got high from that; I would have known if I did because the effects would have come on much sooner.

Bottom line: LSD can only be absorbed through the skin if it's in liquid form. It can't be absorbed into your skin once it has been absorbed on the blotter. Besides, like I said, the amount of drug on those tiny pieces of paper is intensely small.

Naps is right. The only time I heard of someone absorbing LSD through the skin was in liquid form. It was my friend's brother who took a lot of drugs. He got a vial of liquid LSD to sell and spilled it on his hand at a party.

Also, you can't get contaminated by someone who might have spilled liquid LSD on themselves, as they would have already absorbed it through their skin.

You cannot trip by touching a blotter, LSD is very easily destroyed by sun light too even if it was possible to "Contaminate" you with LSD the LSD would be destroyed in no time, if its like 2 hours in the sun or touches water then a large percentage would be destroyed.