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Name Block Miles Hadley C Anti-drug Campaign Research Notes Name of Drug Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Sub-topic a) Common Street Names b) How the Drug is Used and Taken c) Psychological Effects d) Short Term Physiological Effects e) Adverse and/or Long Term Health Effects f) Possibility of Physiological and Psychological Dependency g) Overdose Complications and Possibility of Fatality h) Statistics i) Other Facts Discovered Key facts (point form – one key fact per bullet) Acid, L, Doses, Hits, Dots, Yellow Sunshine, Boomers, Tabs, Trips, Sugar Cubes, Blotter, Zen, Windowpane Orally, using a tablet of paper soaked in LSD, which is then chewed or swallowed. Alternate methods of usage include intravenous, ocular, and intramuscular. Schizophrenia, severe depression, mood swings, flashbacks to previous LSD trips, paranoia. Hallucinations, hearing colors and seeing sounds. Prolonged eye dilation, raised body temperature, rapid heartbeat, elevated blood pressure, increased blood sugar, salivation, tingling in fingers and toes, weakness, tremors, palpitations, facial flushing, chills, gooseflesh, profuse perspiration, nausea, dizziness, inappropriate speech, and blurred vision. Does not create compulsive drug-seeking behavior. Most users voluntarily decrease or stop its use over time. Overdose is virtually impossible, yet accidents or suicides caused by hallucinations or paranoid induced by the drug have occurred. 13.2 Americans over age 12 reported LSD use in 1993, 8.1 million in 1985. Discovered in a lab and its effects were discovered by accident by a Swiss scientist. Everyone reacts differently to it, depending on their personality, temperament, the environment in which they take it, their mood before taking it, and their mental health while taking it. Not known to cause brain damage. Thought to be able to be used for mind control and chemical warfare by the CIA, which resulted in a government project known as MKULTRA. The project involved the use of LSD on both voluntary and involuntary subjects in and outside the military, resulting in several accidental deaths and millions of dollars spent on the project. MKULTRA was cancelled due to the CIA deeming LSD too unpredictable. Page 1 of 2 Name Block Miles Hadley C Narconon Natural Detox and Rehab Centre. (2012). Drug Information - LSD. Retrieved from: http://www.narconon.ca/LSD.htm PsychoActive Drugs Guide. (2007). LSD history, LSD discovery, early LSD use till now. Retrieved from: http://www.psychoactive.org.uk/LSD/history.htm LeVert, S. (2006). Drugs the facts about LSD and other hallucinogens. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark. Page 2 of 2