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Substance use – LSD

The term LSD refers to lysergic acid diethylamide. It comes as a clear, colourless liquid or white powder, and it is an illicit street drug. It can be purchased in tablet, pill, liquid, powder, or tablet form. LSD is often ingested. Some individuals inject it into a vein while others snort it through their noses.

LSD is also known as “acid,” “blotter,” “blotter acid,” blue cheer, “electric Kool-Aid,” “hits,” “Lucy in the sky with diamonds,” “mellow yellow,” “microdots,” “purple haze,” “sugar cubes,” “sunshine tabs,” and “window pane” on the streets.

LSD’s Effects on Your Brain

Mind-altering drugs include LSD. In other words, it affects your brain’s central nervous system and alters your mood, behaviour, and perspective on the world. Serotonin is a brain neurotransmitter that is affected by LSD. Serotonin aids in the regulation of thought, feeling, behaviour, and mood.

LSD belongs to the group of chemicals known as hallucinogens. These are drugs that can make you hallucinate. When you are awake, you may experience things that seem real but are actually mental creations that you perceive, hear, or feel. A extremely potent hallucinogen, LSD. It takes very little to induce hallucinations.

Users of LSD refer to their hallucinogenic encounters as “trips.” Depending on the dosage and reaction of your brain, a trip may be “good” or “bad.”

An enjoyable and fascinating excursion is possible. A terrible journey can be dreadful and uncomfortable.

The unpredictable nature of LSD’s effects makes it dangerous. As a result, you never know if you’ll have a good or horrible vacation until you utilise it. It is impossible to predict how it will impact you:

• You can have a sense of disconnection from reality and floating.
• You might experience happiness (euphoria, or “rush”) and a loss of inhibition akin to getting intoxicated by alcohol.
• You might have feelings of superhuman power, crystal-clear reasoning, and complete lack of fear.
• Your perceptions could get warped. It is possible to change an object’s size and shape. Otherwise, your senses can “cross over.” You might experience colours, music, or feeling.
• You can experience a variety of emotions at once or switch between them quickly.
• You might have frightful ideas.
• Normally manageable fears could get out of hand. You might, for instance, hold pessimistic ideas, such those that you will soon die, or that you want to harm yourself or others.

How you consume LSD affects how quickly you experience its effects:

• Effects typically begin 20 to 30 minutes after ingestion. The effects can last up to 12 hours and reach their peak in 2 to 4 hours.
• When administered intravenously, the effects of LSD begin to take effect in just 10 minutes.