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By Calvin Sumter and Anthony Sciabarrasi. Hallucinogens . What are Hallucinogens?. These are drugs that make you change your perception of reality. They can cause you to see or hear things that are not real, or they distort things that are real. What do they do?.
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By Calvin Sumter and Anthony Sciabarrasi Hallucinogens
What are Hallucinogens? • These are drugs that make you change your perception of reality. • They can cause you to see or hear things that are not real, or they distort things that are real.
What do they do? • It causes sensations of the following: • Anxiety • Paranoia • Complete Psychosis ( a complete loss with realty) • They can lead us to do dangerous things unconsciously, which could lead to fatalities.
Main effects • The effects of hallucinogens begin within half an hour of taking the drug, are strongest in three to five hours, and last for up to 12 hours. • They can include: • seeing, hearing, touching or smelling things in a distorted way or that don't exist (you usually know that what you are sensing is not real); • intense sensory experiences (e.g. colors become very bright, sounds become sharper); • mixing of the senses (e.g. you 'hear' colors or 'see' sounds); • changed sense of time (e.g. minutes can seem as slow as hours, or you can 're-live' something that happened a long time ago); • space becomes distorted strange bodily sensations (e.g. as though you are floating or being pulled down by gravity, or that you are becoming part of another object); • changed and intense thoughts emotional swings (e.g. change from intense happiness to deep sadness).
How do they Work? • Hallucinogens disrupt how your nerve cells and the neurotransmitter, Serotonin, interacts throughout the brain and spinal cord. • This leads to psychedelic trances and a loss with reality.
LSD • AKA: Acid
Mushrooms • AKA: Shrooms
Mescaline • AKA: Cactus
Sites • http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/facts/drugshallucinogens • http://www0.health.nsw.gov.au/factsheets/drugAndAlcohol/hallucinogens.html • http://faculty.valpo.edu/jnelson/AbnormalWebPage/Notes/SubAbPP/sld031.htm