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	Shroomery - How Hallucinogenic Drugs Work
		Although hallucinogenic drugs are grouped together by their tendency to elicit common psychic, somatic, and sensory-perceptual effects and by their display of cross-tolerance, they differ in molecular structure.
		In his neurochemical studies he reported that the administration of hallucinogenic drugs to animals increased the level of brain serotonin and decreased the level of serotonin's metabolic by-products (11).
		The indole nucleus structure of the serotonin molecule is similar to that of the hallucinogenic drugs LSD, psilocin, and DMT shown in Figure 2.
	www.shroomery.org /6266/How-Hallucinogenic-Drugs-Work (3399 words)

	The Effects of Hallucinogenic Drugs on The Brain
		Early on in the reasearch on hallucinogens, it was determined that hallucinogenic drugs structurally resemble serotonin (5-HT) Serotonin is found in specific neurons in the brain that mediate chemical neurotransmission in the brain.
		Hallucinogenic drugs cause an increase in the level of brain serotonin, but they inhibit the rapid firing of neurons containing serotonin.
		Hallucinogenic drugs directly affect the serotonin receptors(specifically the serotonin receptor subtype, 5-HT2), which is what eventually results in a complex pattern of action potentials and activity.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper1/Ebbitt.html (1061 words)

	Hallucinogenic drugs
		For example, psilocybin is a relatively mild hallucinogen and its effects are usually relaxation, a sense of wellbeing and mild visual distortion of colour and distance.
		The effects of LSD are unpredictable, and as with any other drug, depend on the amount taken, the user's personality, mood and expectations, past experience of the drug and the surroundings in which the drug is taken.
		Schizophrenia can sometimes be triggered by heavy use of hallucinogenic drugs, especially LSD; but it appears that one has to have a predisposition towards developing schizophrenia for this to occur.
	www.psychiatry24x7.com /bgdisplay.jhtml?itemname=substance_hallucinogenic (1617 words)

	Drug Policy Alliance: Human Hallucinogenic Drug Research in the United States: A Present-Day Case History and Review of ...
		One leading authority on hallucinogen structure- activity relationships remarked to me in half jest that the sole paper he saw coming out of this attempt would be one describing the impossibility of such work in the present climate of war against drug abuse.
		The abuse potential of these drugs was clearly high; it was this characteristic that seems to have been the major factor in their placement in Schedule I. Fortunately, animal research continued unabated, providing the focal point for the recent explosion of information about the neurotransmitter, serotonin, and its receptor subtypes in the brain.
		If a study was designed to use a drug currently in use (e.g., morphine) for research on a nonindicated use (e.g., to control high blood pressure in an emergency setting), a drug company could simply authorize the FDA to access their DMF on the researcher's behalf.
	www.drugpolicy.org /library/psystras.cfm (7770 words)

	Hallucinogenic Drugs in Psychiatric Research and Treatment
		Hallucinogenic substances found in fungi, plants, and animals have been used on all continents, and in a wide variety of cultures, both highly advanced and preliterate (Dobkin de Rios, 1984).
		Hallucinogens reside in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, which is reserved for drugs with "high abuse potential," "lack of established safety even under medical supervision," and "no known use in medical treatment" (Anonymous, 1970).
		Hallucinogens also were administered to psychotic patients and comparisons were made between drug effects and preexisting symptoms (Cholden et al., 1955).
	www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/lsd/rjspap.htm (8721 words)

	Hallucinogenic Drugs
		In 1939 the drug was used in research into adrenaline followed by it’s testing as a relief for Parkinson’s Disease which was later abandoned due to it’s side effects.
		This drug is the most commonly used illicit drug and a great number of methods have been developed to take this drug.
		It became used as a pleasure inducing drug in the early 1900’s and the non-medical use was prohibited in 1928.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /geoff.skeats/drugs/hallucin.htm (1845 words)

	CSP - 'Hallucinogenic Drugs and Their Psychotherapeutic Use' by Richard Crocket, R. A. Sandison, and Alexander Walk
		Mayhew uses "flashback" in the sense of moving backwards and forwards in time during a drug session, however, not in the later sense of reexperiencing aspects of a psychedelic session later during a non-drug period.
		The religious significance of experience under hallucinogenic drugs thus is limited if not connected to a moral and therapeutic action.
		Drugs which increase work, or endurance, or life, are taken with little hesitation: it is only drugs which increase energy blindly and without social relevance that are mistrusted.
	www.csp.org /chrestomathy/hallucinogenic_drugs.html (2233 words)

	How Hallucinogenic Drugs Work
		Hallucinogenic drugs have been revered in many societies for their use in religious rites or as medicinal agents.
		Although hallucinogenic drugs are grouped together by their tendency to elicit common psychic, somatic, and sensory-perceptual effects and by their display of cross-tolerance, they differ in molecular structure.
		The indole nucleus structure of the serotonin molecule is similar to that of the hallucinogenic drugs LSD, psilocin, and DMT shown in Figure 2.
	home.wanadoo.nl /romgens/HHDW/hhdw.htm (3289 words)

	hallucinogenic drug - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Newer hallucinogens, such as PCP (phencyclidine, or "angel dust"), a drug originally used as an anesthetic, and MDMA ("Ecstasy"), an amphetamine derivative, were common in the 1980s.
		Hallucinogens produce a wide range of effects, depending on the properties, dosage, and potency of the drug, the personality and mood of the drug taker, and the immediate environment.
		Many hallucinogenic drugs share a basic chemical structural unit, the indole ring, which is also found in the nervous system substance serotonin.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-hallucindrg.html (779 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for hallucinogenic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is a hallucinogenic drug that intensifies sense perceptions and produces hallucinations, mood changes, and changes in the sense of time.
		LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) Hallucinogenic drug, causing changes in mental state, sensory confusion and behavioural changes, resulting from the drug blocking the action of serotonin in the brain.
		A psychedelic and hallucinogenic drug obtained from the seeds of the morning glory plant Rivea corymbosa.[From Nahuatl ololiuhqui one that covers, from ololoa to cover, alluding to the fact that the plant is a clinging vine]...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=hallucinogenic (599 words)

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		On the other hand, during this same period, hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD and mescaline were seen by the medical and psychiatric fields as being agents that seemed to simulate psychosis.
		The hallucinogenic drug fools the neurons into thinking it is a neurotransmitter and it then disrupts the normal flow of business in the neurons.
		If there are functions turned on by hallucinogenic drugs in the brain that do not normally operate in our usual states of consciousness, then scientists have nothing to compare these states to, and thus are affected by a blind spot.
	artofhacking.com /IET/OCCULT/HALLUCIN.DOC (5126 words)

	Drug Rehab Drug Rehabilitation Hallucinogens Drug Addiction Treatment Centers
		Historically, hallucinogenic plants were used largely for social and religious ritual, and their availability was limited by the climate and soil conditions they require.
		Users refer to LSD and other hallucinogenic experiences as "trips" and to the acute adverse experiences as "bad trips." Although most LSD trips include both pleasant and unpleasant aspects, the drug's effects are unpredictable and may vary with the amount ingested and the user's personality, mood, expectations, and surroundings.
		Hallucinogen: A drug that produces hallucinations - distortion in perception of sights and sounds - and disturbances in emotion, judgment, and memory.
	www.drug-rehabs.com /hallucinogens-rehab.htm (2624 words)

	Hallucinogens
		Although hallucinogen use can lead to hallucinogen abuse, it is believed that for most hallucinogenic drugs, hallucinogen addiction is actually more a function of the tolerance experienced when used on a frequent basis, than actual dependence on the drug.
		PCP (phencyclidine) and ketamine are drugs originally developed as general anesthetics for surgery, and are referred to as dissociative drugs.
		Dissociative drugs act by altering the distribution of the neurotransmitter glutamate throughout the brain, which is involved in the perception of pain, responses to the environment, and memory.
	www.midwestdrugrehab.com /halucinogens.php (883 words)

	A Short Guide To Hallucinogenic Drugs For Inner Space Explorers
		On the other hand, during this same period, hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD and mescaline were seen by the medical and psychiatric fields as being agents that seemed to simulate psychosis.
		Thus, the effects of hallucinogens are generally seen by scientists to be "noise" (similar to static on a radio, for example).
		If there are functions turned on by hallucinogenic drugs in the brain that do not normally operate in our usual states of consciousness, then scientists have nothing to compare these states to, and thus are affected by a blind spot.
	deoxy.org /psyguide.htm (5514 words)

	Designer Drugs
		However, today designer drugs are universally understood to belong to a group of clandestinely produced drugs which are structurally and pharmacologically very similar to a controlled substance but are not themselves controlled substances (Langston and Rosner 1986).
		The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has noted that the designer drug terminology tends to cast a somewhat glamorous aura onto the concept, and as a result, the DEA feels that it would be wise to refer to these compounds in some other manner and suggests the use of the term Controlled Substance Analogs (CsA).
		It has been suggested that the effectiveness of stimulant drugs as appetite suppressants are the result of the fact that the user forgets to eat and that this behavior is in direct proportion to the adrenomimetic activity of the drug (Cutting 1969).
	designer-drugs.com /synth (9422 words)

	Psychedelic Drugs - Background
		The physiological effects of hallucinogenic induced ASC are reasonably straight-forward: pupils dilate, heart rate increases, breathing patterns are altered, chills and tremors are experienced, spontaneous motor motions such as dance and gestures may result, and sleeping is significantly impaired.
		At one extreme of this spectrum, the effects of hallucinogens are viewed in a negative light and thought of as a neuropathology; sensory alterations are called 'hallucinations', emotional changes are seen to be related to paranoia and the disjointed behavior of schizophrenics, and cognitive alterations are considered to be delusions.
		However, hallucinogens that produce very similar psychological effects show significant differences in modes of action on neurotransmission, meaning that the neurochemistry of hallucinogenic effects is probably mediated through redundant and complex pathways.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dondeg/backpsyc.htm (2066 words)

	SANE - Alcohol and Drugs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alcohol and certain drugs can trigger or exacerbate mental health problems, particularly in young people, whose brains are still developing, and in those who already have or have had a mental illness in the past.
		Hallucinogenic drugs are substances such as LSD and hallucinogenic amphetamines which produce heightened and distorted perceptions, over-activity and, when taken in quantity, can cause a psychotic condition with delusions very similar to those found in schizophrenia.
		The hallucinogenic psychosis produced may often take a long time to settle and does not necessarily clear up rapidly when the drug is withdrawn.
	www.sane.org.uk /public_html/About_Mental_Illness/Alcohol_Drugs.shtm (2588 words)

	Mescaline - Drug Rehab 101
		One of the more interesting and controversial hallucinogenic drugs available today is mescaline.
		Mescaline is a drug that is most associated with the Peyote cactus, found primarily in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.
		Mescaline is not considered terribly addictive, as it does not affect users in such a way that they seek the drug.
	www.drugrehab101.com /articles114.html (579 words)

	Drugs - CNS Hallucingens
		Hallucinogenic agents, also called psychomimetic agents, are capable of producing hallucinations, sensory illusions and bizarre thoughts.
		The drugs shown in the graphic can be isolated from natural sources: lysergic acid amide from morning glory seeds, psilocybin from the "magic mushroom", Psilocybe mexicana.
		The hallucinogenic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) are also the result of the complex interactions of the drug with both the serotoninergic and dopaminergic systems.
	www.elmhurst.edu /~chm/vchembook/672hallucin.html (459 words)

	MAPS: [] Seeing hallucinogenic drugs as a pathway to the infinite
		In the past 30 years, psychedelic drug use has moved from dishevelled hippie apartments in Haight Ashbury and Kitsilano to being the topic of scholarly papers at tony conferences such as this one at high-priced Whistler.
		Today, the more dignified word of choice for hallucinogenics is "entheogens," which is from the Greek and means "to generate spirit within," says Ken Tupper, who is writing his master thesis in education at Simon Fraser University on hallucinogenics among aboriginal cultures.
		Hallucinogens, he says, seem best taken as part of a group experience in a sacred, preferably natural setting, and not as part of an individualistic trip.
	www.maps.org /pipermail/maps_forum/2001-May/003491.html (1434 words)

	Hallucinogenic Drugs
		Hallucinogenic drugs are substances that distort the perception of objective reality.
		The most well known hallucinogens include phencyclidine, otherwise known as PCP, angel dust, or loveboat; lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD or acid; mescaline and peyote; and psilocybin, or "magic" mushrooms.
		This is an extremely dangerous practice, given the unpredictability of the drug, and can result in increased risk of convulsions, coma, heart and lung failure, and even death.
	www.beattheheat.com /tips/hallucinogens.htm (574 words)

	UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1965 Issue 2 - 005
		Before the drug is taken, these are reduced to very fine powder and placed on a plate from 5" to 6" long.
		While under the influence of the drug the rats did not react to external stimuli; the cage could be struck violently, a lot of noise made in the vicinity, the animal pushed around, blown on and generally molested, without being roused from its torpid condition.
		As is well-known, in addition to its hallucinogenic effects, bufotenin produces passing psychoses, cyanosis, respiratory anxiety, sweating, paresthesia, mydriasis and nystagmus.
	www.unodc.org /bulletin/bulletin_1965-01-01_2_page006.html (5243 words)

	Ss Use of Other Drugs
		Hallucinogens are a completly different kind of buzz not to be taken lightly usually in a planned way and only when I am in the right mood other drugs I use much like I woud have a beer to get whatever effect I require at the time.
		hallucinogens are incomparably better because not only are they entertaining and mind-expanding, they are the only way to see what it's like to be someone, something else, if only for a short while.
		Hallucinogenic drugs (henceforth referred to as HD) will warp you perception to a point where objectivity is not guaranteed.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dondeg/othern.htm (2510 words)

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