The Facts about LSD and Other Hallucinogens
Author: Suzanne LeVert
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780761419747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the history, characteristics, legal status, and abuse of LSD.
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LSD and Other Hallucinogens
Author: Christine Petersen
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 1627123849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the popularity of Burning Man and other festivals where drug use is a known, it's difficult to insist that teens see drugs as dangerous, but many drugs are. This book doesn't preach; it uses real life stories of teens who have used LSD and other hallucinogens to explain what can and does happen through drug use. Readers will learn the symptoms of addiction, including the physical, emotional, and social damage that can arise from substance abuse. Alarming facts and statistics point out how prevalent hallucinogenic abuse can be among teens, and how to steer clear of falling prey. Readers are given practical advice on how to say no, and an entire chapter is dedicated to getting help.
The Truth About LSD and Hallucinogens
Author: Corona Brezina
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2013-12-15
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 1477719016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLSD has had a colorful history, to say the least. First developed for medical purposes, it was soon adopted by mental health therapists and spiritual seekers. Experimented with by both the military and the CIA, the drug was eventually adopted by hippies seeking to "turn on, tune in, and drop out." LSD and other hallucinogens have since become a staple of party and club culture. This colorful history, however, belies the very real dangers and destructiveness of drugs that lure many teens into drug abuse, mental illness, physical peril, and dangerous interference with normal brain chemistry. Readers will be confronted with the cold hard facts about these drugs and the devastation they wreak, rather than the sunny pop culture fantasy so often associated with hallucinogens.
Hallucinogens
Author: Richard R. Laing
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2003-04-24
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780124339514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHallucinogens: A Forensic Drug Handbook is a comprehensive reference for everyone involved in the identification, investigation, and forensic analysis of hallucinogenic drugs. The text begins with a review of the history of these drugs and their abuse, and then takes an in-depth look at the many different types of hallucinogens, their chemical make-up, how they affect users, how they are manufactured and distributed, and how they can be detected and analyzed. Hallucinogens covers the most commonly abused drugs such as LSD, MDMA ("Ecstasy"), and PCP ("Angel Dust"), as well as many lesser-known chemical substances that cause similar effects. Chapters have been contributed by leading analysts and investigators around the world, and are highlighted with numerous illustrations. This unique handbook will serve is a cross-disciplinary source of information for forensic toxicologists, law enforcement officers, and others involved in the fight against drugs. * Brings together comprehensive information on hallucinogenic drugs in one convenient source * Covers everything from abuse of these drugs to pharmacology, effects, forms, manufacturing methods, distribution, and forensic analysis * Contains numerous illustrations, chemical structures, and analytic spectra for each drug * Includes contributions from many of the world's leading investigators and analysts
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Author: Timothy Leary
Publisher: Ronin Publishing
Published: 2009-04-01
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1579511058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten in the psychedelic era, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out is Timothy Leary at his best, beckoning with humor and irreverence, a vision of individual empowerment, personal responsibility, and spiritual awakening. Includes: Start Your Own Religion Education as an Addictive Process Soul Session Buddha as Drop-Out Mad Virgin of Psychedelia God's Secret Agent o Homage to Huxley The Awe-Ful See-Er o The Molecular Revolution MIT is TIM Backwards Neurological Politics "Trickster is a major figure in American Indian folk Wisdom. Also in Sufi Tales … a certain type of "rascal"-with a grin and a wink (and wisdom beyond wisdom) … in the Zen tradition this is known as the School of Crazy Wisdom … Timothy Leary-in his own inimitable way-has become the twentieth century's grand master of crazy wisdom …" - Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove
The Pharmacology of LSD
Author: Annelie Hintzen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0199589828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLSD has a controversial and extraordinary reputation, due to the special effects it can induce on human consciousness.This book is the first ever comprehensive review of the psychological and pharmacological effects of LSD. It draws on data from more than 3000 experimental and clinical studies.
LSD
Author: M. Foster Olive
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 0791097099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the history, health effects, addiction, and legal status of the hallucinogenic drug LSD.
Fifty Years of LSD: Current Status and Perspectives of Hallucinogens
Author: D. Ladewig
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1994-08-15
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781850705697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the proceedings of the Symposium of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences held in Lugano-Agno in Switzerland in September 1993. It includes chapters in pharmacological, psychopathological and clinical aspects of LSD and hallucinogenic drug use in medicine, in addition to a personal historical account of the discovery of LSD by Professor Albert Hofmann, as well as social and cultural aspects of LSD.
The Effects of Drug Abuse on the Human Nervous System
Author: Bertha Madras
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2013-11-15
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 0124186858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrug use and abuse continues to thrive in contemporary society worldwide and the instance and damage caused by addiction increases along with availability. The Effects of Drug Abuse on the Human Nervous System presents objective, state-of-the-art information on the impact of drug abuse on the human nervous system, with each chapter offering a specific focus on nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA, sedative-hypnotics, and designer drugs. Other chapters provide a context for drug use, with overviews of use and consequences, epidemiology and risk factors, genetics of use and treatment success, and strategies to screen populations and provide appropriate interventions. The book offers meaningful, relevant and timely information for scientists, health-care professionals and treatment providers. - A comprehensive reference on the effects of drug addiction on the human nervous system - Focuses on core drug addiction issues from nicotine, cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, and other commonly abused drugs - Includes foundational science chapters on the biology of addiction - Details challenges in diagnosis and treatment options
Psychedelic Psychiatry
Author: Erika Dyck
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2008-09-15
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1421400758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLSD's short but colorful history in North America carries with it the distinct cachet of counterculture and government experimentation. The truth about this mind-altering chemical cocktail is far more complex—and less controversial—than generally believed. Psychedelic Psychiatry is the tale of medical researchers working to understand LSD’s therapeutic properties just as escalating anxieties about drug abuse in modern society laid the groundwork for the end of experimentation at the edge of psychopharmacology. Historian Erika Dyck deftly recasts our understanding of LSD to show it as an experimental substance, a medical treatment, and a tool for exploring psychotic perspectives—as well as a recreational drug. She recounts the inside story of the early days of LSD research in small-town, prairie Canada, when Humphry Osmond and Abram Hoffer claimed incredible advances in treating alcoholism, understanding schizophrenia and other psychoses, and achieving empathy with their patients. In relating the drug’s short, strange trip, Dyck explains how concerns about countercultural trends led to the criminalization of LSD and other so-called psychedelic drugs—concordantly opening the way for an explosion in legal prescription pharmaceuticals—and points to the recent re-emergence of sanctioned psychotropic research among psychiatric practitioners. This challenge to the prevailing wisdom behind drug regulation and addiction therapy provides a historical corrective to our perception of LSD’s medical efficacy.
