Contents:
- Medical Video: Your Brain on LSD and Acid
- Overview of LSD
- The danger of hallucinogenic effects of LSD on the human body
- What are the symptoms and symptoms of LSD?
- Rehabilitation as the main way out for drug dependence
Medical Video: Your Brain on LSD and Acid
LSD stands for lysergic acid diethylamide, a type of hallucinogenic drug that can cause hallucinations. The hallucinogenic effects of LSD are said to be so powerful that they can change moods to disrupt the body's perceptions and sensations of the surrounding world, while also creating an unrealistic picture. So, what will happen to the body of LSD users when they are in love?
Overview of LSD
LSD was first discovered in 1943 by a chemist named Albert Hoffman after processing ergotamine compounds obtained from ergot fungi. Initially LSD was used to treat psychiatric disorders. But unfortunately, LSD began to be misused by hands not responsible for being made drunk medicine thanks to the strong stimulant effect.
This effect is obtained because LSD influences the interaction between brain cells and serotonin, a hormone in the brain that affects mood, perception, emotions and feelings of pleasure and euphoria. Because of these side effects, users often use LSD repeatedly to get similar reactions. The effects of this drug work after 30-60 minutes of use and remain felt for almost 12 hours.
LSD has a variety of market names, such as acid, sugar cubes, blotter, dots, microdot, and others. This dangerous drug is odorless, colorless, and has a slightly bitter taste. You can find LSD in the form of colored tablets, pills, clear liquids, capsules, paper blotter (like stamps), and gelatin.
LSD type stamps used by licking or just sticking to the tongue, then after a while the effect will be felt. While LSD in the form of gelatin and liquid is usually used by dropping it directly into the eye similar to when using eye drops.
The danger of hallucinogenic effects of LSD on the human body
No matter what form and how to use it, hallucinogenic effects will immediately work quickly and intensely causing hallucinations even if someone first uses LSD. The more you use, the stronger and longer lasting the effects of this drug. The hallucinatory side effects that users feel are often referred to as "tripping " or if Indonesianized, "trip".
LSD users generally feel loss of appetite, lack of sleep, dry mouth, tremor, and feel visual changes. Usually, LSD users will focus on one color with a certain intensity.
The hallucinogenic effects of LSD can also cause massive mood shifts, which are often followed by behavioral and emotional disorders. This disorder is often referred to as "bad trip" which is a symptom of anxiety, fear, and panic that occurs in LSD users. Thanks to this bad trip, even ordinary touches can be felt excessively and frighteningly by its users. Many LSD users often experience "bad trips" even a few days and weeks after using LSD.
In addition, complications can also occur called ergotism, a series of symptoms that occur due to narrowing of the arteries. Ergotism can cause a sensation of pain such as heat in the legs, loss of sensation at the tip of the hands and feet, and swelling. Ergotism can also continue to become headache, seizures, and other nervous disorders.
This hallucinogenic effect depends on how much LSD is used. After LSD is absorbed into the body, the wearer will experience side effects within 30 minutes to 40 minutes after taking the medicine and remain felt for 12 hours or more. namely a hallucinatory journey that can cause changes in mood, perception, and sensation.
What are the symptoms and symptoms of LSD?
Just like most other drugs, LSD can cause the wearer addiction to get an euphoric sensation or a similar feeling of pleasure and sensation. In addition, addiction can also occur when the user's body builds tolerance to the effects of the drug so they will need more doses to achieve a similar sensation.
When the user stops taking the drug suddenly or drops the dose drastically in a short time, the symptoms of cough will appear. LSD symptoms include emotional and physical symptoms.
The following are some of the most common symptoms when a person experiences LSD:
- Sweating
- Nausea
- Enlarged pupils
- Tremor or tremble
- Dry mouth
- Blurred vision
- Body temperature increases
- Blood pressure increases
- Heart palpitations
- Insomnia or difficulty sleeping
- Weak and lethargic
- Visual hallucinations
- Time distortion, such as difficult to distinguish the time of morning, evening, or night
- Easily offended
The symptoms above are relatively mild symptoms of LSD. When someone experiences bad trip"Or a bad hallucinatory journey, the symptoms might get more intense and not wear. LSD users may experience frightening extreme changes in their minds and moods, which in turn can increase the risk of injury and even fatal consequences.
Some of the symptoms of LSD that are potentially harmful to users include:
- Extreme anxiety
- Feeling of losing identity, assuming that they never existed / lived in this world
- Panic
- Paranoid high level
- Rapid and significant mood swings
- Aggressive towards others, including the desire to kill other people
- Trends or experiments suicide
But in general, people who are experiencing symptoms of LSD are more easily seen from drastic changes in emotions and moods than physical signs.
Rehabilitation as the main way out for drug dependence
People who are experiencing sakau are often often ignored or even shunned. In fact, every person who has been addicted to drugs will also definitely go through the sakau stage if they want to "clean" and stop being drug users.
Because sakau generally peaks after a few days of the last dose, detoxification is the main method of recovering from dependence and symptoms of sakau, as well as preventing potential recurrence of addiction, by removing the remaining drugs in the body.
The detoxification program can be done by outpatient or inpatient care at a drug rehabilitation center. However, inpatient rehabilitation is the most suitable choice so that patients can control and manage the symptoms of cravings and cravings, which will be very strong during detox, with close supervision by a professional medical team.
