What is it?

LSD

LSD discovered in 1938. It manufactured from lysergic acid. Lysergic acid is found in ergot, a fungus which grows on rye and other grains.

LSD is mood-changing chemical.

Street Names of LSD

• Acid
• Blotter
• Blooter Acid
• Dots
• Microdot
• Pane
• Paper Acid
• Sugar
• Sugar Cubes
• Trip
• Window Glass
• Window Pane
• Zen

How abused

LSD is usually taken orally. It is sold in tablets, capsules, and occasionally liquid form. LSD is often added to absorbent paper. Then, the paper divided into decorated pieces each equivalent to one dose. Experiences referred to as “trips”. Normally it ends after twelve hours.

Affect on Brain

Under the influence of LSD, user’s sensations and feelings changes much more dramatically than physical signs. Sometime users feel several different emotions at once or move rapidly from one emotion to another. Drug produces delusions and visual hallucinations if it taken in large enough doses. Users may face wired experiences. These wired experiences are like giving the user the feeling of hearing colors and seeing sounds. Sometime these problems cause frightening and panic. Some LSD users face different experience. For example, terrifying thoughts and feelings of despair, fear of losing control, or fear of insanity and death while taking LSD.

LSD users experience flashbacks. These flashbacks occur suddenly without any warning. Flashbacks might occur within a few days or more than a year after LSD use. In some cases, the flashbacks can keep coming in mind continuously and cause significant distress or impairment in social or occupational functioning. This condition known as hallucinogen induced persisting perceptual disorder (HPPD).

After taking LSD for a while, most of users voluntarily decrease or stop its over time. It is not considered an addictive drug because it does not produce compulsive drug seeking behavior.

Other Effects

There are many other effects on health. LSD causes dilated pupils. It can raise body temperature, increase heart rate, blood pressure. LSD can cause profuse sweating, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, dry mouth and even tremors.

Treatment
This treatment is usually supportive. Type of treatment is supportive provision of a quiet room with little sensory stimulation. Sometime benzodiazepines are used to control extreme agitation or seizures.