What Are Hallucinogens?
Hallucinogenic drugs – both natural and synthetic – are substances that distort a person’s perception of reality. These drugs excite the central nervous system and alter the mind, usually causing euphoric feelings, but sometimes causing severe depression. Some common hallucinogens are LSD, PCP, Peyote, Mescaline, and Psilocybe Mushrooms.
What Are The Effects Of Hallucinogens?
Under the influence of hallucinogens, users’ pupils dilate and their body temperature and blood pressure rise. Hallucinogens distort users senses of direction, distance, and time. If taken in large doses, the drug produces delusions and hallucinations. Under the influence of hallucinogens, users may speak of seeing sounds and hearing colors. Occasionally, post-use depression is so severe that suicide is possible, but the most common danger is impaired judgment leading to rash decisions and accidents. People in hallucinogenic states should be closely supervised and upset as little as possible, to protect themselves and others. Acute anxiety, restlessness, and sleeplessness are common side effects while the drug is still in one’s system. Long after hallucinogens have ceased, users may experience “flashbacks” -small recurrences of psychedelic effects – such as intensification of a perceived color, motion of a fixed object, or mistaking one object for another, this is due to the drug being stored in the body tissue for years after use. Recurrent use produces tolerance, which encourages the use of larger doses.
What is LSD? What Are The Effects Of LSD?
What Is PCP? What Are The Effects Of PCP?
