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Miles Hadley
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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.
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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.
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Overdose is virtually impossible, yet accidents or suicides caused by
hallucinations or paranoid induced by the drug have occurred.
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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.
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