Emergency Medicine News
September 1, 2015
Leon Gussow
Figure: Phenethylamine, top left; 2C-I, top right; and 25I-NBOMe, below.FigureAt least 19 young people died between March 2012 and November 2013 from the so-called N-BOMB drugs, synthetic hallucinogens that can be deadlier than LSD, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Chemist Alexander Shulgin developed a series of hallucinogenic 2C drugs in the early 1970s by adding...
August 1, 2015
Stephen J. Chapman, Arabo A. Avanes
3 citations
1H NMR spectra of 28 alleged psychedelic phenylethanamines from 15 grey-market internet vendors across North America and Europe were acquired and compared. Members from each of the principal phenylethanamine families were analyzed: eleven para-substituted 2,5-dimethoxyphenylethanamines (the 2C and 2C-T series); four para-substituted 3,5-dimethoxyphenylethanamines (mescaline analogues); two...
August 1, 2015
Stephen J. Chapman, Arabo A. Avanes
3 citations
1H NMR spectra of 28 alleged psychedelic phenylethanamines from 15 grey-market internet vendors across North America and Europe were acquired and compared. Members from each of the principal phenylethanamine families were analyzed: eleven para-substituted 2,5-dimethoxyphenylethanamines (the 2C and 2C-T series); four para-substituted 3,5-dimethoxyphenylethanamines (mescaline analogues); two...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
March 1, 2015
Pål-ørjan Johansen, Teri Suzanne Krebs
300 citations
A recent large population study of 130,000 adults in the United States failed to find evidence for a link between psychedelic use (lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin or mescaline) and mental health problems. Using a new data set consisting of 135,095 randomly selected United States adults, including 19,299 psychedelic users, we examine the associations between psychedelic use and mental...
Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
January 26, 2015
David Baumeister, Luis M. Tojo, Derek K. Tracy
158 citations
There has been growing clinical, public, and media awareness and concern about the availability and potential harmfulness of so-called ‘legal highs’, which are more appropriately called new or novel psychoactive substances (NPS). A cat-and-mouse process has emerged wherein unknown chemists and laboratories are producing new, and as yet nonproscribed, compounds for human consumption; and as soon...
2015
5 citations
Edited by two preeminent scholars, this book provides coverage of the policy issues related to the increasingly diverse treatments, practices, and applications of psychedelics. Hallucinogenic substances like LSD, mescaline, peyote, MDMA, and ayahuasca have a reputation as harmful substances that are enjoyed only by recreational users committing criminal acts. But leading international...
Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry
2015
Zoë Ellison‐wright, Ben Sessa
7 citations
Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder is a disorder of uncertain aetiology occurring mainly after ‘classical’ hallucinogen use ( ie mescaline, psilocybin, dimethyltryptamine and LSD) use. Here, the authors describe the case of a boy with similar symptoms developing after he reported using cannabis seven times.
Neurologia (Barcelona, Spain)
2015
F J Carod-Artal
112 citations
The American continent is very rich in psychoactive plants and fungi, and many pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures used them for magical, therapeutic and religious purposes. The archaeological, ethno-historical and ethnographic evidence of the use of hallucinogenic substances in Mesoamerica is reviewed. Hallucinogenic cactus, plants and mushrooms were used to induce altered states of...
Addiction
July 1, 2014
Michael H. Baumann
49 citations
The emergence of ‘bath salts’ products containing synthetic cathinones represents a global public health threat. Synthetic cathinones have significant abuse potential, and the effects of high-dose administration can be life-threatening. More preclinical and human research is needed to understand the complex pharmacology and toxicology of these substances. During the past several years, there...
NeuroQuantology
June 2, 2014
H. Umit Sayin
7 citations
Psychoactive plants have been consumed by many cultures, cults and groups during religious rituals and ceremonies for centuries and they have been influential on the eruption of the many images, secret and religious symbols, esoteric geometrical shapes, archetypes, religious figures, philosophy of religions since the dawn of Homo sapiens. Some of the psychoactive plants used for religious...