A Brief History of Hallucinogens
The first synthetic hallucinogen was created in 1938.
What is LSD?
A manipulation of yarn that is dated back to the Ancient Egyptians. Studies have shown this positive addiction can reduce blood pressure, lower anxiety, and increase mental processing.
What is knitting/crochet?
A disorder that affects a person's brain and behavior and leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal drug or medication.
What is Substance Use Disorder?
This song written by Eric Clapton is famous for its substance use and lyrics, “If you want to get down. Down on the ground.”
What is Cocaine?
This phrase refers to abruptly quitting a drug by choice in order to try to quit long-term.
What is cold turkey?
This hallucinogen has believed to have been used in ceremonies and traditions in Ancient tribes found in present day Mexico
What is Peyote?
Early mankind began to do this when creating civilization to feed its population. Today entire hardware stores have a wing dedicated to this.
What is Gardening?
An emotional disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting, purging, or fasting.
What is Bulimia?
This famous Beatles song was always believed to be about LSD from its suggesting title.
What is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?
This term refers to the simultaneous presence of two independent medical disorders, including a mental health disorder and a drug and/or alcohol addiction.
What is dual diagnosis?
DAILY DOUBLE
The active ingredient in this hallucinogen is Psilocybin. It is hypothesized that Prehistoric rock art in Spain shows that this substance was used in religious rituals 6,000 years ago
What is Magic Mushrooms?
A mindful practice that reduces stress and anxiety. Many individuals feel as though they have written a book after completing.
What is journaling?
DAILY DOUBLE
A mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
The Weekend rose up the charts with this hit song about the numbness cocaine can bring to the body.
What is “Can’t feel my face?”
This term refers to when someone helps an addict do things they can or should be doing for him or herself, which causes drug and/or alcohol addiction progression.
What is enabling?
In 1692, a small village in Massachusetts was plagued by individuals suffering from hallucinations and delirium. Lysergic Acid, an active ingredient in LSD and found in mold from rye bread, is believed to have been a leading cause in this historical event.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
A life skill that can save you a lot of money on food.
What is cooking?
A person with this disorder has differences in brain development and brain activity that affect attention, the ability to sit still, and self-control.
What is ADHD?
Originally written by Nine Inch Nails, this song was popularized by Johnny Cash a few months before his death. The song describes a bleak relationship with Heroin
What is “Hurt?”
A substance containing no pharmacological elements that may cause a reaction based on a patient's mindset.
What is a placebo?
The drug was tested as an anesthetic in the 1950s and used briefly to knock out animals during veterinary surgeries. It is the only hallucinogen that does not have medicinal properties and can be highly destructive.
What is PCP?
An exercise that psychologists believe to be the most powerful positive addiction. The leading theory proposes that this was early man’s greatest survival skill.
What is running?
Not a specific disease, this is a group of conditions characterized by impairment of at least two brain functions, such as memory loss and judgment. Usually diagnosed in the elderly.
What is Dementia?
Afroman started the new millennium with this 2000 single. This song is his ultimate excuse on why he never achieves anything throughout the day.
What is “Because I got High?”
Congress passed this act and was signed into law by president Bill Clinton in 1996 to protect patient’s confidentiality rights.
What is HIPPA?