HALLUCINOGENS

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HALLUCINOGENS
GROUP SIX
Thomani Adams Erica Wisdom Byron Dawkins Edgar
Quinones
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Table of contents

• What is the drug ?
• How is it used ?
• What are some of the medical complications ?
• How does the drug produce its effects ?
• What are the short-term and long-term effects ?
• Where can we get further information of the drug
• Is there any other relevant information that may
  be useful ?
• Quiz

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What is the Drug ?
Hallucinogenic substances are characterized by
their ability to cause changes in a persons
perception in reality. People using
hallucinogenic drugs are often seeing images,
hearing sounds, and feeling sensations that seem
real but do not exist.
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How is it used
Hallucinogens can be made into solutions, pills,
and powders. This drug can be used by injecting
into muscles or bloodstreams, or inhaling it in.
Hallucinogens can also be chewed swallowed or
added to food.
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Short-term and Long-term effets
twitching muscles, dilated pupils, nausea,
increased heart rate, increase in blood pressure,
poor coordination, dry mouth, bad body odor,
seizures, comas, suicide attemps.
Short - term
Long- term
Memory loss, difficulty speaking, impaired
speaking ability, depression, anxiety, crossed
tolerance, increased risk of developing
schizophrenia, psychological dependence.
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How does the drug produce its effects
How hallucinogens produces its affects is through
the brain. The way this drug works through the
brain, is that it sends the brain a message. In
that message it tells the brain that you are
seeing certain things such spots on the wall,
when no one else can see them.
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Medical Complications

• Miscarriages
• Birth defects
• fatal liver damage
• Flashbacks
• HPPD (trailing images, spots, panic attacks,
  depression)
• Unwanted weight loss
• Mood disorder

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facts you should know

• This drug is a man made drug
• found to have psychoactive properties
• Hallucinogens are the only drug that dont show
  up in urine.

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The QUIZ

• TRUE OR FALSE DOES HALLUCINOGEN SHOW UP IN
  URINRE IF TRUE EXPLAIN WHY ?
• Name one medical complication of hallucinogens?
• HOW IS THIS DRUG TAKEN ?
• What is the first short term example that was on
  this power point ?
• TRUE OR FALSE This powerpoint was simply
  amazing?