A survey of drug use in the past year was completed by 124 clubbers (50% male, 50% female, age range 14–44, mean 24 years). Participants were self selecting and recruited in clubs and pre-club bars. Prevalence rates for alcohol, cannabis, and ecstasy were over 80%; 63% reported cocaine and 53% amphetamine use, 15%–43% used ketamine, psilocybin, LSD and nitrites. A pattern of polydrug and...
Distributed by Human Relations Media, 41 Kensico Drive, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549; 800-431-2050Produced by John O'NeilDirected by John O'Neil2003, VHS, color, 18 min. LSD, mushrooms, mescalin, psilocybin – classic auditory and visual hallucinogens, and probably the best known of hallucinogenic drugs due to the 1960s counterculture. These and newer, more potent hallucinogens are profiled in this HRM...
Ecstasy is the trend drug of the 1990's. Its use spread among the so-called techno and rave culture from Great Britain from the late 1980's to all western countries. Even the phenomenon is quite new; the substance was already found as early as 1912 in Germany. The substance was not taken into use until early 1950's, when the U.S military tested possibilities to use it for military purposes. It...
Hallucinogens (psychedelics) are psychoactive substances that powerfully alter perception, mood, and a host of cognitive processes. They are considered physiologically safe and do not produce dependence or addiction. Their origin predates written history, and they were employed by early cultures in a variety of sociocultural and ritual contexts. In the 1950s, after the virtually contemporaneous...
Parmi les substances hallucinogènes, les dérivés ergotés occupent une place non négligeable. Différents champignons ou plantes en renferment. Le plus connu est l'ergot de seigle, un sclérote parasite du seigle. Dans les cas d'intoxications par des céréales contaminées les victimes ont présenté de nombreux troubles dont des hallucinations, mais il n'a pas été décrit de cas d'individus consommant...
De quoi s'agit-il ?De trois substances, de trois drogues synthétiques interdites au coeur du discours sur les fêtes technos, et de leur persécution par les pouvoirs en place, mais trois substances vieilles comme le monde, trois substances magiques… Trip, « voyage », le diéthylamide de l'acide lysergique, le LSD-25, 25°c omposé synthétisé en 1943 par Albert Hofmann 1 , à partir de dérivés de...
This Pulse Check is a report of national trends in illicit drug abuse and drug markets in the United States. The report draws on conversations with ethnographers and epidemiologists working in the drug field, law enforcement agents, and drug treatment providers across the United States. Information from each of these sources is summarized in narrative form broken down by drug type and presented...
A 25-year-old man was brought to the emergency department from a late-night dance club. A friend reported that the patient commonly used designer drugs that he purchased over the Internet. While at the club, he started to vomit and experience visual hallucinations. He had no previous medical history and took no prescription medications. On searching the patient's clothing, medical staff found...
Three distinct classes of drugs: dopaminergic agonists (such as D-amphetamine), serotonergic agonists (such as LSD), and glutamatergic antagonists (such as PCP) all induce psychotomimetic states in experimental animals that closely resemble schizophrenia symptoms in humans. Here we implicate a common signaling pathway in mediating these effects. In this pathway, dopamine- and an adenosine...
Although British drugs policy has become increasingly contested, debate in this area has continued along well-established lines. Recent reviews, including those conducted by the independent inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act and the Select Committee on Home Affairs, have called for reform largely on the basis of the established medicalized philosophy. While the related notions of...