According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, in 2016 more than 3 million Australian’s used illicit drugs and the statistics are continuing to increase (“Illicit use of drugs Overview - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare”, 2019). The serious consequences of using drugs continues to rise as 1 in 10 people had been victimized due to drug related incidents. It further explained that this continued abuse of drugs was causing disabilities, disorders and in the worst cases, death....
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Over the past few weeks of this quarter, our Health and Drugs class has discussed a lot of information about drugs, drug properties, and the schedules in which they are classified by the Controlled Substance Act in 1970. Based off the information we have gone over in class and some extra research, it is apparent our drug schedule’s need to be revised and edited. In particular, two drugs (LSD and Marijuana) need to be revised, so they receive funding from...
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At first, you feel nothing. As the tablet dissolves, reality does as well. You look around the room. The room is spinning almost pulsating. It’s as if the world is breathing. It all started by taking a small tablet. This tablet is a form of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). LSD is a widely used drug that has affected various people in America. Thus, to understand the gravity of the effect of this drug, one must address the pharmacology, biological impact,...
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LSD, also known as Lysergic acid diethylamide-25 is a potent drug that is in fact, the most powerful out of all of the hallucinogens psychedelic drugs, this is due to the fact that is is approximately 100 times stronger than psilocybin and 4000 times stronger than mescaline. This drug changes a person’s mental state by changing, altering, and distorting the perception of reality to the point where at high doses hallucination occurs. LSD is synthetically made from lysergic acid, which...
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Introduction Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) also colloquially known as “acid” is a psychedelic drug often criticised as being dangerous and delusion inducing but is also heralded by many scientists and psychologists as mind expanding, wonder drug. LSD is a derivative of ergot; ergot is a fungus which frequently grows on both rye and wheat. For centuries ergot was utilised as a medicine, such as in childbirth in small dosages. It was used to aid childbirth via both quickening delivery and...
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Introduction Lysergic acid diethylamide, also known as LSD, or “acid,” is considered the best-known and most researched psychedelic or hallucinogenic drug. [footnoteRef:1] It is made from a lysergic acid compound found in ergot, a fungus that grows on grains. [1: Passie,Torsten , John H. Halpern, Dirk O.Stichtenoth, Hinderk M. Emrich, and Annelie Hintzen. 'The Pharmacology of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: A Review.' CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics 14, no. 4 (2008): 295-314. doi:10.1111/j.1755-5949.2008.00059.x.] Today’s recreational users of LSD often include people in...
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Introduction Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was first synthesized in 1938 by Albert Hofmann (Passie, Halpern, Stichtenoth, Emrich, & Hintzen, 2008). It is a prototypical hallucinogen and has one of the most potent hallucinogenic effects (Wacker et al., 2017). LSD is derived from lysergic acid and there are four optically-active isomers known (Passie et al., 2008). Out of four isomers, d- and l-LSD and d-l and l-isolysergic acid diethylamide, only d-LSD isomer has psychoactive properties (Passie et al., 2008). There are...
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