1. Hallucinogens
Hallucinogens or psychedelics are mind-altering drugs, which affect the mind's perceptions, causing bizarre, unpredictable behavior, and severe, sensory disturbances that may place users at risk of serious injuries or death. Hallucinogens powerfully affect the brain, distorting the way our five senses work and changes our impressions of time and space. People who use these drugs a lot may have a hard time concentrating, communicating, or telling the difference between reality and illusion. Hallucinogens cause people to experience - you guessed it - hallucinations, imagined experiences that seem real. The word "hallucinate" comes from Latin words meaning, "to wander in the mind." .
Your brain controls all of your perceptions; the way you see, hear, smell, taste, and feel. Chemical messengers transmit information from nerve cell to nerve cell in the body and the brain. Your nerve cells are called neurons, and their chemical messengers are called neurotransmitters. Chemicals like hallucinogens can disrupt this communication system, and the results are changes in the way you sense the world around you. There's still a lot that scientists don't know about the effects of Hallucinogens on the brain though. .
Some hallucinogens occur naturally in trees, vines, seeds, fungi and leaves. Others are made in laboratories by mixing different chemical substances. LSD or acid is one of the most common, well-known hallucinogens. Psilocin or Psilocybin mushrooms, Mescaline or Peyote, MDMA, Bufotenine, Morning Glory seeds, Jimson weed, PCP and DMT are less common psychedelics with effects similar to LSD. PCP and Ketamine are drugs with hallucinogenic properties. Some drugs, such as cannabis, can cause hallucinogen-like effects when used in high doses or in certain ways. Using hallucinogens is often called tripping. In its pure form LSD is a white, odorless powder. This pure form is very strong, so LSD is usually mixed with other things to make the dose large enough to take.
I believe the two most popular drugs today are heroin and hallucinogens. ... Let it be known that according to a study done in 1999 only one percent of teens use hallucinogens on regular basics and 94 percent of teens have never used a hallucinogen before. ... Heroin and Hallucinogens are different in many ways, too. Heroin is more addictive than hallucinogens, yet it depends on the person. Hallucinogens take awhile to kick in while heroin goes directly to the brain. ...
Lysergic acid diethlyamide (LSD) more commonly known in our culture as "acid,"" belongs to a group of illicit drugs classified as hallucinogens. Hallucinogens, when ingested, can cause severe hallucinations that may last anywhere from six to twelve hours depending on purity. ... The use of hallucinogens is not a new phenomenon. ... These are psychosis and Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder. ... Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder is more commonly known as "flashbacks."" ...
LSD is the most commonly used hallucinogen and produces a distortion in the user's sense of reality. ... Historically, hallucinogens were used for religious rituals to induce detachment from reality and produce visions that connect the user to the spirit world or "higher power". But more recently, people use hallucinogens for personal, recreational use in order to have an enlightening experience, and become self-aware from a state outside of their physical body. Hallucinogens have also been tried as therapeutic agents to treat diseases associated with perceptual disorders, mus...
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(3) Hallucinogens include LSD, PCP or angel dust. Hallucinogens are commonly associated with panic attacks at the height of the drug experience ("bad trips"). ... During the 1980s it was established as the most commonly used hallucinogen, with the majority of users 5 to 25 years old. ... Unsolicited repetitions of the drug experience, without further ingestion of the drug ("flashbacks"), are also characteristic of hallucinogens. ... LSD is an extremely potent hallucinogen with only minuscule doses required to produce effects. ...