drug- a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic kat,khat,qat,quat,African tea,Arabian tea,cat- the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults" ...
Objectives Classic psychedelics (serotonin 2A receptor agonists) and dissociative hallucinogens (NMDA receptor antagonists), though differing in pharmacology, may share neuropsychological effects. These drugs, however, have undergone limited direct comparison. This report presents data from a double-blind, ...
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), often referred to by the street name “acid”, is one of the most potent known hallucinogens. Similar to psilocybin, it is a classic psychedelic as it exerts its effect through 5-HT2A agonism. However, unlike psilocybin, it has also been shown to indirectly...
Hallucinogens. Pharmacol Ther 101: 131–181. Ouagazzal AM, Jenck F, Moreau JL (2001). Drug-induced potentiation of prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle reflex in mice: a model for detecting antipsychotic activity? Psychophar- macology 156: 273–283. Patel R, Wilson R, Jackson R, Ball...
Despite their having a low risk of physical dependence, hallucinogens are nevertheless well-established drugs of abuse leading to significant problems for the users. All the above notwithstanding, we recognize that some of the effects of efavirenz might be explained by interactions with it or one ...
Details on the psychometric properties of AUDADIS-5 psychiatric diagnoses are given elsewhere.30,33 Disability and Impairment Current disability was measured using the 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey version 2 (SF-12v2), a reliable and valid measure widely used in population surveys.34 The SF-...
34 The AUDADIS-IV separately assessed DSM-IV criteria for nicotine dependence and alcohol- and drug-specific abuse and dependence for the following 10 classes of drugs: sedatives, tranquilizers, opiates (other than heroin), stimulants, hallucinogens, cannabis, cocaine (including crack cocaine), ...
Give the Gray Room Dweller a dose of hallucinogens, or an EMP to the right part of the brain, and they could experience all the colors imaginable without ever leaving their black-and-white room. The problem was never one of incommunicable experience, but one of insufficiently rich ...
condition (used for Fig.4a, center left & center right calculations). When taking condition-average centroids (LSD and PL), we find that these two sets of centroids are highly correlated with one another (SI Fig.6d), and thus are also very similar to the group-average centroids shown ...
To a large extent the numerous rural and urban communes, which provide a great freedom for private drug use and where hallucinogens are widely used today, are actually subsidized by our society. Their perpetuation is aided by parental or other family remittances, welfare, and unemployment payments...