Author: John Carter
Hallucinogens: LSD, Peyote, Psilocybin, PCP & Other Psychedelic Drugs
Or they might snort or smoke the powder or swallow it as tablets and capsules. Yes, researchers classify weed (cannabis) as a hallucinogen. Although marijuana doesn’t always produce hallucinogenic effects, it can do so at high doses. People sometimes seek treatment for hallucinogen intoxication as a result of “bad trips,” during which a person may, for example, hurt themselves.
What are the effects of recreational PCP use?
Because PCP was once used as an animal tranquilizer, it has nicknames like horse tranquilizer (or horse tranq), hog, and elephant. If it’s mixed with cannabis, you might hear it called killer joints, fry, lovelies, wets, or waters. High doses of PCP can also cause seizures, coma, and death (often due to accidental injury or suicide during PCP intoxication). Psychological effects at high doses include delusions and hallucinations. Users often refer to the experiences from hallucinogens as a “trip”, or calling an unpleasant experience a “bad trip.”
Additional Common Questions
If their symptoms are mild, they may be discharged 1 or 2 hours after they become symptom-free. If their symptoms are serious or the psychotic episodes continue, they may need longer-term care, including treatment for substance use disorder. Users of PCP are often brought to emergency rooms because of the drug’s severe psychological effects and violent or suicidal behaviors. Mixing phencyclidine with central nervous system depressants (alcohol, opioids, or benzodiazepines), increases the risk of overdose. Despite the common belief that hallucinogens are harmless, PCP is addictive.
Withdrawal and treatment
While you’re waiting for help to arrive, talk to the person in a calm manner but don’t get too close if they’re agitated. Don’t give any fluids or medications if you don’t have medical training. When you use PCP in any form, how you react to the drug depends on how much of it you’ve taken. Most users (70%) inhale PCP (by smoking or snorting) because the effects are quick without the problems of using needles.
Effects
This means you’ll need to use higher doses to get the same level of high. The combination of addiction and increasing tolerance makes it very hard to quit. When you take a higher dose of angel dust, it might cause you to have strange behaviors and postures, such as spasms that cause you to arch your back, head, and neck. You might experience beautiful visions, a sensation of floating, and feel fearless. People often dissolve the powder or liquid in alcohol or water.
PCP (Phencyclidine) Treatment
It’s become a common club drug in the last couple of decades and produces effects similar to other dissociative substances, like special K. Salvia leaves can be chewed, smoked, or heated and turned to gas that can be inhaled (vaporized). Salvia’s psychic effects include perceptions of bright lights, vivid colors, shapes, and body movement, as well as body or object distortions. Some LSD users experience severe, terrifying thoughts and feelings of despair, fear of losing control, or fear of insanity and death while using LSD.
This category includes narcotics that have a high potential for abuse or physical or psychological dependence. So if you use, buy, or sell the drug, you might face fines and jail time. The health care provider may give a sedative and/or use physical restraints if the person is violent. The user may also get IV fluids and activated charcoal if they took the drug by mouth. Activated charcoal has been shown to absorb PCP in the stomach. In some cases, it’s possible for PCP to cause over-the-top psychological effects that make you feel stronger than you are and engage in violent behavior.
In a hospital or detention setting, they often become violent or suicidal, and are very dangerous to themselves and to others. They should be kept in a calm setting and should not be left alone. PCP (phencyclidine) was developed as an intravenous anesthetic.
- Yes, researchers classify weed (cannabis) as a hallucinogen.
- People on PCP have walked into traffic or jumped from buildings, for instance.
- Users may develop severe mood swings, anxiety, paranoia and hostility, as well as psychosis.
- Much of the ketamine people use is stolen from veterinary offices.
The powder can be dissolved in water to produce a liquid solution. During the first 30 to 90 minutes, changes in visual perception and mood are likely. As the drug achieves its one-to two-hour “peak,” the user may experience distorted impressions of time, space, and distance. “Tracking” may occur-the observation of streams of colored light following the path of a moving object and “psychedelic” patterns may appear. Judgment and the ability to recognize immediate danger can be impaired increasing the risk of injury.