Club drugs and "other" abusable substances are briefly overviewed as a reminder about the wide variety of known and unknown substances used by adolescents, the high potential for direct and interactive substance use effects to manifest acutely and chronically, and the vigilance needed to anticipate and recognize the new effects and drug-drug interactions arising as novel substances continue to...
LSD is making a comeback nationwide among Caucasian middle-class high school and college students. Compared to the mean values during the years 1985 to 1990, an approximately 25% increase occurred in lifetime-, annual-, and monthly-use rates of LSD, in 1993, according to the annual NIDA high school senior survey. In 1992, an increase in LSD-related arrests occurred, as did seizures of larger...
Volatile substances have been used to alter consciousness since ancient times. Societal trends have brought forth one inhalant fad after another. It would be reasonable to expect this pattern to change as certain of the inhalants come under greater control or become less available (e.g., leaded gasoline). Experimentation with these agents among younger adolescents probably will continue, and...