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| Categories | Signs and symptoms | | Hallucinogens (LSD and mescaline) | • Extremely dilated pupils
• Warm skin, excessive perspiration
• Distorted sense of sight, hearing, touch; distorted image of self and time perception
• Mood and behavior changes, the extent depending on emotional state of the user and environmental conditions
• Unpredictable flashback episodes even long after withdrawal
• Greatly impaired perception of reality, for example, interpreting input from one of your senses as another, such as hearing colors
• Permanent mental changes in perception
• Rapid heart rate
• High blood pressure
• Tremors
• Flashbacks, a re-experience of the hallucinations — even years later
| | Dissociative Anesthetics (PCP) | • Abnormal behavior; aggressive, possibly violent
• Intoxication symptoms
• Disorientation; agitation and violence if exposed to excessive sensory stimulation
• Horror
• Rigid muscles
• Unusual gait
• Deadened sensory perception
• Pupils may appear dilated
• Mask like facial appearance
• Floating pupils, appear to follow a moving object
• Comatose if large amount consumed; eyes may be open or closed
• Hallucinations
• Euphoria
• Delusions
• Panic
• Loss of appetite
• Depression | | Inhalants (glue, vapor producing solvents, propellants ) | • Substance odor on breath and clothes
• Runny nose
• Watering eyes
• Drowsiness or unconsciousness
• Poor muscle control
• Prefers group activity to being alone
• Presence of bags or rags containing dry plastic cement or other solvent at home, in locker at school or at work
• Discarded whipped cream, spray paint or similar chargers
• Seizures and damage to the brain, liver and kidneys.
• Inhalant use can also cause death. |
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