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Program Helps Troubled Boys Reduce Substance Abuse

Chronically delinquent boys in Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care reduced their substance abuse more than boys assigned to Community Group Care.

Alucinógenos

Los alucinógenos hacen que las personas tengan – ¡lo adivinaste!– alucinaciones. Las alucinaciones son experiencias imaginadas que parecen ser reales.

Published: January 2006
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Hallucinogens

Explains how hallucinogens affect the brain’s communication centers as well as its ability to control sleep and emotions.

Published: January 1997
Revised: January 2009
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New Vaccines Are Being Developed Against Addiction and Relapse

NIDA Director Nora Volkow

Highlights NIDA-funded research to develop vaccines against addiction to drugs such as cocaine, nicotine, phencyclidine (PCP), and methamphetamine.

From the Director

Drugs with street names like acid, angel dust, and vitamin K distort the way a user perceives time, motion, colors, sounds, and self. These drugs can disrupt a person's ability to think and communicate rationally, or even to recognize reality, sometimes resulting in bizarre or dangerous behavior. Hallucinogens such as LSD cause emotions to swing wildly and real-world sensations to assume unreal, sometimes frightening aspects. Dissociative drugs like PCP and ketamine may make a user feel disconnected and out of control.

Hallucinogens and Dissociative Drugs

Offers the latest research findings on hallucinogens and dissociative drugs, describing what they are, how they are abused, and basic facts about different drugs within this classification of drugs.

Published: March 2001
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Alucinógenos y drogas disociativas

Ofrece los últimos resultados de las investigaciones sobre los alucinógenos y las drogas disociativas, describe lo que son, cómo se abusa de ellos, y los datos básicos sobre las diferentes drogas dentro de esta clasificación de las drogas.

Published: June 2003
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Los alucinógenos: LSD, peyote, psilocibina y PCP

Durante siglos se han usado compuestos alucinógenos que se encuentran en algunas plantas y hongos o setas (o sus extractos), principalmente para los ritos religiosos. Casi todos los alucinógenos contienen nitrógeno y se clasifican como alcaloides. Muchos alucinógenos tienen una estructura química similar a la de los neurotransmisores naturales (por ejemplo, parecida a la de la acetilcolina, la serotonina o la catecolamina).

Hallucinogens - LSD, Peyote, Psilocybin, and PCP

Hallucinogenic compounds found in some plants and mushrooms (or their extracts) have been used—mostly during religious rituals—for centuries. Almost all hallucinogens contain nitrogen and are classified as alkaloids. Many hallucinogens have chemical structures similar to those of natural neurotransmitters (e.g., acetylcholine-, serotonin-, or catecholamine-like).

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