- cocaine: causes the user to feel euphoric, energetic, talkative, and mentally alert, especially to the sensations of sight, sound, and touch. It can also temporarily decrease the need for food and sleep.
- lsd: causes users to experience hallucinations. Users can see images, hear sounds, and feel sensations that seem to be very real, but actually do not exist.
- psilocybin mushrooms: cause a feeling of relaxation, heaviness, strange light phenomena, surfaces seem to ripple, shimmer, or breath and enhancement and contrasting colors. In higher doses, visuals include sense of melting into the environment and objects that warp, morph and change solid colors. Auditory effects include an increased clarity in music. The music is sometimes accompanied by visual hallucinations of colors. There have also been reported heightened senses and increase acuity for details of the surroundings that make every simple action such as showering or riding a bike seem more rewarding and sensational.
- ecstasy: enhances physical sensations. The sense of touch is heightened, food may smell and taste different to normal, and many people say that music sounds better. There's more awareness of the moment and more contentment with whatever that moment might be.
- marijuana: produces a feeling of euphoria and relaxation. Some experience heightened sensory perception, with colors appearing more vivid and noises being louder
- heroin/opiates: first a surge of pleasurable sensation—a rush. The rush is usually accompanied by a warm flushing of the skin, dry mouth, and a heavy feeling in the extremities, which may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and severe itching. After the initial effects, users usually will be drowsy for several hours; mental function is clouded; heart function slows; and breathing is also severely slowed
- benzos: At normal or regular doses, benzodiazepines relieve anxiety and insomnia. They are usually well tolerated. Sometimes, people taking benzodiazepines may feel drowsy or dizzy. This side effect can be more pronounced with increased doses. High doses of benzodiazepines can produce more serious side effects. Those may include drowsiness, confusion, dizziness, blurred vision, weakness, slurred speech, and lack of coordination
- bath salts: Mentally, the user will experience euphoria, alertness, anxiety and agitation. He will probably not feel hungry. He may have a headache, tense muscles, increased body temperature, nosebleeds and dilated pupils. He may also be dizzy and confused and may grind his teeth. But those are the milder effects.The more serious effects include fits, hallucinations, aggression, suicidal thoughts or attempts and psychotic delusions. Physically, a person can experience liver failure, kidney failure, loss of bowel control and rhabdomyolysis, a spontaneous breakdown of muscle fiber that can lead to death.
dec 18 2014 ∞
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