Friday, March 27, 2009
LSD
LSD or Lysergic Acid Diethylamide is a hallucinogenic drug (which means you’re likely to experience a distorted view of objects and reality, including in the form of hallucinations). It originally derived from ergot, a fungus found growing wild on rye and other grasses. LSD is commonly called ‘acid’. The experience is known as a ‘trip’ and these trips can be good or bad. A trip can take from 20 minutes to an hour to start and usually lasts about 12 hours. Once it's started you can't stop it. And until you take a tab of acid you can't tell how strong it is or how it's going to affect you. How the trip goes can be affected by who you are, how you're feeling and how comfortable you are with the people you’re with.Slang:
Street names for drugs can vary around the country. Acid, blotter, cheer, dots, drop, flash, hawk, L, lightening flash, liquid acid, Lucy, micro dot, paper mushrooms, rainbows, smilies, stars, tab, trips, tripper, window. Sometimes LSD is known by the pictures on them e.g strawberries.
Street names for drugs can vary around the country. Acid, blotter, cheer, dots, drop, flash, hawk, L, lightening flash, liquid acid, Lucy, micro dot, paper mushrooms, rainbows, smilies, stars, tab, trips, tripper, window. Sometimes LSD is known by the pictures on them e.g strawberries.
The effects
A ‘trip’ can appear to involve a speeding up and slowing down of time and movement.
Colour, sound and objects can get distorted and you can experience double vision.
Trips can heighten the mood you’re already in.
A ‘trip’ can appear to involve a speeding up and slowing down of time and movement.
Colour, sound and objects can get distorted and you can experience double vision.
Trips can heighten the mood you’re already in.
Chances of getting hooked
There is no evidence LSD is addictive ie There is no physical addiction or withdrawal after heavy use, although people can and do become mentally habituated to LSD.
Appearance and use
As a street drug it's usually sold as tiny squares of paper with pictures on them. But it can be found as a liquid or as tiny pellets.
There is no evidence LSD is addictive ie There is no physical addiction or withdrawal after heavy use, although people can and do become mentally habituated to LSD.
Appearance and use
As a street drug it's usually sold as tiny squares of paper with pictures on them. But it can be found as a liquid or as tiny pellets.
The risks
*LSD or ‘acid’ has very random, and sometimes very frightening, effects. Trips feed off a person's imagination.
*If panic sets in, the experience can be scary and confusing. Bad trips can be terrifying.
*Flashbacks sometimes happen. This is when part of the trip is subsequently re-lived after the original experience. (This usually occurs within weeks or months after taking the LSD but can be longer).
*There's no evidence to suggest LSD does any long-term damage to the body or long-term psychological damage.
*People have been known to harm themselves during a bad trip.
*LSD could have serious, longer term implications for somebody who had a history of mental problems and may also be responsible for triggering a mental health problem that had previously gone undetected.
*unusual body sensations (facial flushing, chills, goosebumps, body energy)
*unusual thoughts and speech
*change in perception of time
*quickly changing emotions (happiness, fear, gidiness, anxiety, anger, joy, irritation)
*paranoia, fear, and panic
*unwanted and overwhelming feelings
*LSD or ‘acid’ has very random, and sometimes very frightening, effects. Trips feed off a person's imagination.
*If panic sets in, the experience can be scary and confusing. Bad trips can be terrifying.
*Flashbacks sometimes happen. This is when part of the trip is subsequently re-lived after the original experience. (This usually occurs within weeks or months after taking the LSD but can be longer).
*There's no evidence to suggest LSD does any long-term damage to the body or long-term psychological damage.
*People have been known to harm themselves during a bad trip.
*LSD could have serious, longer term implications for somebody who had a history of mental problems and may also be responsible for triggering a mental health problem that had previously gone undetected.
*unusual body sensations (facial flushing, chills, goosebumps, body energy)
*unusual thoughts and speech
*change in perception of time
*quickly changing emotions (happiness, fear, gidiness, anxiety, anger, joy, irritation)
*paranoia, fear, and panic
*unwanted and overwhelming feelings
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
Magic mushrooms are mushrooms that grow in the wild. They produce similar hallucinogenic-type effects to LSD when you eat them. There are two main types and they’re quite different. The most common form is a species called psilocybe semilanceata or ‘liberty cap’, while the other more potent variety is amanita muscaria or ‘fly agaric’. There are deadly poisonous species of amanitas.
Slang:
Street names for drugs can vary around the country. Magic mushrooms, Liberties, magics, mush
ies, liberty cap, shrooms, Amani, agaric.
Street names for drugs can vary around the country. Magic mushrooms, Liberties, magics, mush
ies, liberty cap, shrooms, Amani, agaric.Purity
The biggest danger with taking any magic mushrooms is making sure you’ve picked the right thing. There are hundreds of varieties and some of them are highly poisonous.
As you'd expect with something that grows naturally, the strength varies depending on the freshness, the season and there are regional variations.
The biggest danger with taking any magic mushrooms is making sure you’ve picked the right thing. There are hundreds of varieties and some of them are highly poisonous.
As you'd expect with something that grows naturally, the strength varies depending on the freshness, the season and there are regional variations.
The risks
*Both types of mushrooms can make you feel sick, tired and disoriented but fly agaric (Amanita Muscaria) is much more potent and risky to take.
*‘Bad trips’ are seriously frightening and unsettling. And you can't tell whether you're going to have a bad trip or a good trip. Also you can get flashbacks some time afterwards.
*You may be at risk when you’re not in complete control of what you're doing. Your perception of your body and the world around you can be distorted.
*Eating the wrong kind of mushroom can make you seriously ill, and even kill you.
*Magic mushrooms can complicate any mental health issues you may have.
*intense feelings of fear
*headache, usually as effects wear off, sometimes beginning the next day, lasting for up to 24 hours
*nausea, gas, gastrointestinal discomfort, especially when dry mushrooms eaten raw
mild to severe anxiety
*dizziness, confusion
*lightheadedness or fainting (in cases of lowered blood pressure)
*can precipitate or exacerbate latent or existing mental disorders
*working memory disruption (reduced ability to do tasks requiring current remembering and attention)
*Both types of mushrooms can make you feel sick, tired and disoriented but fly agaric (Amanita Muscaria) is much more potent and risky to take.
*‘Bad trips’ are seriously frightening and unsettling. And you can't tell whether you're going to have a bad trip or a good trip. Also you can get flashbacks some time afterwards.
*You may be at risk when you’re not in complete control of what you're doing. Your perception of your body and the world around you can be distorted.
*Eating the wrong kind of mushroom can make you seriously ill, and even kill you.
*Magic mushrooms can complicate any mental health issues you may have.
*intense feelings of fear
*headache, usually as effects wear off, sometimes beginning the next day, lasting for up to 24 hours
*nausea, gas, gastrointestinal discomfort, especially when dry mushrooms eaten raw
mild to severe anxiety
*dizziness, confusion
*lightheadedness or fainting (in cases of lowered blood pressure)
*can precipitate or exacerbate latent or existing mental disorders
*working memory disruption (reduced ability to do tasks requiring current remembering and attention)
Chances of getting hooked
Magic mushrooms are not addictive although, like with LSD, you can
become tolerant of the effects quite quickly.
Magic mushrooms are not addictive although, like with LSD, you can
become tolerant of the effects quite quickly.Appearance and use
Psilocybe Semilanceata, or liberty caps, are small and tan-coloured and they bruise blue when they're touched. Amanita Muscaria, or fly agaric, mushrooms are more like the red and white spotted toadstools you see in fairytale books.After picking, they're often eaten raw or are dried out and stored.
Psilocybe Semilanceata, or liberty caps, are small and tan-coloured and they bruise blue when they're touched. Amanita Muscaria, or fly agaric, mushrooms are more like the red and white spotted toadstools you see in fairytale books.After picking, they're often eaten raw or are dried out and stored.
METHADONE
Methadone is one of a number of synthetic opiates (also called opioids) that are manufactured for medical use and have similar effects to heroin. Methadone and Subutex (Buprenorphine) are used as opiate substitutes for heroin in the treatment of heroin addiction.
Slang:
Street names for drugs can vary around the country. Mixture, meth, linctus, physeptone
The effects
Opiates are sedative drugs that depress the nervous system. They slow down body functioning and reduce physical and psychological pain. The effect is usually to give a feeling of warmth, relaxation and detachment.
Methadone can help to relieve feelings of anxiety.
See also the effects of heroin.
Opiates are sedative drugs that depress the nervous system. They slow down body functioning and reduce physical and psychological pain. The effect is usually to give a feeling of warmth, relaxation and detachment.
Methadone can help to relieve feelings of anxiety.
See also the effects of heroin.
Chances of getting hooked
Methadone doesn't deliver the same degree of buzz or high as heroin. It allows people to tackle their psychological addiction and stabilize their lifestyle when used as a substitute for heroin. Such treatment may be continued for a long period of time in some cases.
In treatment, opiate substitution therapy, such as methadone and Buprenorphine, is usually aimed initially at obliterating withdrawal symptoms and supporting stabilisation of health and lifestyle. The dose can subsequently then be reduced slowly by agreement until the user is off the drug completely.
There are still problems with heroin withdrawal symptoms, but this method is much less severe than going 'cold turkey'.
Appearance and use
The methadone that's prescribed to people trying to come off ‘street’ heroin is usually a liquid which is swallowed, but it can come in tablet or injectable form. Subutex (Buprenorphine) is dissolved in the mouth. Effects can start quickly and can last several hours.
Methadone doesn't deliver the same degree of buzz or high as heroin. It allows people to tackle their psychological addiction and stabilize their lifestyle when used as a substitute for heroin. Such treatment may be continued for a long period of time in some cases.
In treatment, opiate substitution therapy, such as methadone and Buprenorphine, is usually aimed initially at obliterating withdrawal symptoms and supporting stabilisation of health and lifestyle. The dose can subsequently then be reduced slowly by agreement until the user is off the drug completely.
There are still problems with heroin withdrawal symptoms, but this method is much less severe than going 'cold turkey'.
Appearance and use
The methadone that's prescribed to people trying to come off ‘street’ heroin is usually a liquid which is swallowed, but it can come in tablet or injectable form. Subutex (Buprenorphine) is dissolved in the mouth. Effects can start quickly and can last several hours.
The risks
*Some people are sick the first time they take it and they can become constipated.
*With high doses, the sedation dominates and users feel sleepy. Too much and you can fall into a coma or stop breathing completely.
*Many women don't have periods when they use opiates regularly. If they cut down, or stop, the periods may return.
*Some people are sick the first time they take it and they can become constipated.
*With high doses, the sedation dominates and users feel sleepy. Too much and you can fall into a coma or stop breathing completely.
*Many women don't have periods when they use opiates regularly. If they cut down, or stop, the periods may return.
*Opiates may possibly increase the risk of miscarriage and still births and opiate users may give birth to smaller babies. It's not a good idea to stop using opiates suddenly if you're pregnant as this can cause premature labour and miscarriage. Methadone may be continued throughout pregnancy to minimize such risk.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
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