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Description of Drug and Some Basic Info
Current Trends/Health Risks
Psychological Effects
Behavioral Effects
Treatment and Resources
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What is a hallucinogen?
What is a drug that can cause profound distortion in a user's perception of reality; a drug that can cause hallucinations.
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Can hallucinogens kill you?
What is yes.
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What can a hallucinogen do to the mind?
What is by altering a person’s perceptions of reality; may cause hallucinations and other alterations to the senses.
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People can go crazy from taking hallucinogens, True or False?
What is True. A negative experience or hallucination can cause paranoia or intense fear that may last from days to months.
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What is the basic care for a person who has ingested a hallucinogen?
What is calm reassurance, placed in a quiet area where there is minimal disturbance.
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What is a specific example of a hallucinogen?
What is LSD, Mushrooms, Mescaline, PCP.
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Hallucinogens can cause birth defects and miscarriages, True or False?
What is True.
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What is a long term psychological effect of taking hallucinogens?
What is flashbacks, impaired thinking, and depression.
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What are some common personalities that people take on when under the influence of hallucinogens?
What is confused, paranoid, overly anxious/suspicious, unpredictably violent.
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What should you do if the person who has ingested a hallucinogen becomes dangerous to themselves or the people around them?
What is physically or chemically restrain them. However, avoid prolonged or excessive physical restraint because this can contribute to hyperthermia, rhabdomyolysis, and acidosis, and it can exacerbate the patient's paranoia.
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When was the first hallucinogen discovered? (to the nearest century)
What is 5,000 BC.
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Hallucinogens are used in medicine most commonly to cure what two mental disorders? (one answer will suffice)
What is PTSD and OCD.
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Many people who have taken hallucinogens have claimed to have seen ______ and heard ______.
What is sounds, colors.
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People under the influence of hallucinogens have trouble telling _____ and ______.
What is time and space.
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How can one help ease the withdrawal side effects of hallucinogens?
What is take prescribed medication that can help handle any psychological shifts during withdrawal.
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What is the substance in hallucinogens, most commonly in mushrooms, that causes its effects?
What is psilocybin.
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What long term mental disorder can repeated use of hallucinogens cause?
What is schizophrenia.
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Hallucinogenic experiences to the mind are known as _____.
What are trips.
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How do people that suddenly stop taking hallucinogens act?
What is irritably, dulled, fatigued.
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Are there any treatments for PCP abuse?
What is no.
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How does a hallucinogen work?
What is work that disrupts how your nerve cells and the neurotransmitter serotonin interact throughout the brain and spinal cord; by changing the normal, healthy structure of serotonin in the body, hallucinogens twist and alter the way your brain processes your senses, feelings and visual information.
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In which religion is hallucinogens used to achieve a dream-like trance to interact with the spirit world?
What is shamanism.
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Are hallucinogens physically addictive?
What is no. They are psychologically addictive.
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How can one tell if someone has been taking hallucinogens?
What is by a combination of diluted pupils, disorientation, rambling speech, mood swings, and erratic behavior.
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What is the only proven way to quit hallucinogens?
What is withdrawal.