Need to know for school project on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.  What are the physical effects/mental effects?
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Do you mean other than death or brain damage?\n\nHere's a little quote:\n"Unwanted effects of exposure to ether can include a cough, sore throat, painful red eyes, a headache, drowsiness, laboured breathing and nausea. Vomiting is quite common. But some people like its sub-anaesthetic effects on consciousness; it has "abuse potential"." (1)\n\nIt is also very flammable. I would say explosively so, more than gasoline. Careless/sedated person + ether = possible BOOM! It's not safe to fool around with from this standpoint.
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Short-term cocaine effects include: \n1. Increased blood pressure\n2. Constricted blood vessels\n3. Dilated pupils\n4. Mental alertness\n5. Increased energy\n6. Increased heart rate\n7. Decreased appetite\n8. Increased temperature\n\nOther long-term cocaine effects include: \n1. Addiction\n2. Paranoia\n3. Irritability\n4. Restlessness\n5. Auditory hallucinations\n6. Mood disturbances\n\nwell, those are just the LITTLE effects of cocaine.. if you want a thorought reading on its effects, read this sight below, i find it very useful and brief and straightforward in the effects of cocaine and a lot more..\n\nand since i think God is calling me to type more and give you a lot more information, ill summarize the effects for you.. here it follows..\n\n1. cocaine effects could lead to permamnent damage, addiction and DEATH!\n2. CARDIAC ARREST or SEIZURES and RESPIRATORY FAILURE..!! (oh my, would you like to look so ogly dying because you can no longer breathe?)\n3. when you try using cocaine, the initial effects is that you will have increased energy leading to great productiveness at the beginning and longer endurance, but to attain this, you will have to consume more and more cocaine, your body will urge you to have more that will lead to addiction!!! (would you like your friend to be an addict and if get caught be thrown to jail or a mental ward??)\n4. appetite suppression will lead to a thin figure but this will only urge your body to consume more and more cocaine, and the effest will be none other than aDDICTION again!\n5. when you get addicted to that drug, you will now build a drug tolerance that will yield you to consume much more drugs than you take before, and this follows a great variety of SERIOUS medical condition!\n      *heart disease\n      *heart attacks\n      *respiratory failure\n      *strokes\n      *seizures\n      *gastrointestinal problems\n      *convulsions\n      *nausea\n      *blurred vision\n      *chest pain\n      *fever\n      *muscle spasms\n      *coma.. = DEATH!\n\nif you love your friend like i know you do, please let him/her read this sight. or its better to tell him/her this informations. or rather, seek help, do something wghile you still can. i know you love them, dont you?? \n\n\nhttp://www.friendster.com/profiles/kimpotpot
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Heroin abuse is associated with serious health conditions, including fatal overdose, spontaneous abortion, collapsed veins, and, particularly in users who inject the drug, infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. The short-term effects of heroin abuse appear soon after a single dose and disappear in a few hours. After an injection of heroin, the user reports feeling a surge of euphoria ("rush") accompanied by a warm flushing of the skin, a dry mouth, and heavy extremities. Following this initial euphoria, the user goes "on the nod," an alternately wakeful and drowsy state. Mental functioning becomes clouded due to the depression of the central nervous system. Long-term effects of heroin appear after repeated use for some period of time. Chronic users may develop collapsed veins, infection of the heart lining and valves, abscesses, cellulitis, and liver disease. Pulmonary complications, including various types of pneumonia, may result from the poor health condition of the abuser, as well as from heroin’s depressing effects on respiration. Heroin abuse during pregnancy and its many associated environmental factors (e.g., lack of prenatal care) have been associated with adverse consequences including low birth weight, an important risk factor for later developmental delay.
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check out side effects \nprobably heartburn
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Depends upon the individual and what kind of music.  Classical music seems to help.  Some classic rock is also beneficial.  Very loud heavy metal, well studies with mice have shown that Rave conditions conbined with amphetamine type drugs can kill.
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You will get a hard core, hung over, post stress case sceaming about Bush and Viet Nam. And maybe that's rightfully so. All situations in VN were not the same.\n\nAfter you fight someone hard you gain a certain respect for each other... VN is no different. \n\nPoliticians, Hanoi Jane and demonstrators who took it out on all veterans caused the worst scars.
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this is the report on the one dropped on hiroshima it was the same as 12.5 thousand tons of tnt think tiny in comparison to the monsters now in the inventory Intense thermal heat emitted by the fireball caused severe burns and loss of eyesight. Thermal burns of bare skin occurred as far as 3.5 kilometers from ground zero (directly below the burst point). Most people exposed to thermal rays within 1-kilometer radius of ground zero died. Tile and glass melted; all combustible materials were consumed. \nBlast. An atomic explosion causes an enormous shock wave followed instanteneously by a rapid expansion of air called the blast; these represent roughtly half the explosion's released energy. Maximum wind pressure of the blast: 35 tons per square meter. Maximum wind velocity: 440 meters per second. Wooden houses within 2.3 kilometers of ground zero collapsed. Concrete buildings near ground zero (thus hit by the blast from above) had ceilings crushed and windows and doors blown off. Many people were trapped under fallen strunctures and burned to death. \nRadiation. People exposure within 500 meters of ground zero was fatal. People exposed at distances of 3 to 5 kilometers later showed symptoms of aftereffects, including radiation-induced cancers. exploded
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hi again, i have another answer. the worst thing i have saw is that my grandfather was going to get injurd while he was hunting. Now remember that i can't just get feeling when ever i want i just get them.
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You mean Ritalin.\n\nAdverse effects can include: Growth suppression, seizures, dependence, heart arrhythmia, nervousness, insomnia, abdominal pain, nausea, motor tics, headache, palpitations (you fell like your heart is beating really hard inside your chest), dizziness, blurred vision, tachycardia (racing heart beat).
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I was in the Air Force driving 1000 miles to go home for a month leave. While I was driving in the high mountains around Reno, I fell asleep. I was traveling about 85 mph. My truck veered off the highway. As soon as I felt the truck leave the highway, I woke up and found I was heading downward on the gravel part of the side of the highway. My truck seemed to be driving itself I was in shock. The steering wheel was moving under my hands. I can't describe it any better than this. As the truck moved back up to the highway, I pulled over and tried to calm down. It was a really frightening moment. What was even more frightening was just 1/4 mile more and the side of the highway no longer had gravel. There were large boulders. I still get chills thinking about it.\n\nTill the day I die, I know I was not the one driving my truck at that moment.\n\nbtw - I have had several other experiences where the circumstances involved other than human interaction. I guess I am just one of the few to have been fortunate enough to experience it.
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PUBLIC SPEAKING FREAKS ME OUT......AND I AM A LYRICIST THAT HAS PREFORMED ON STAGE A FEW TIMES ALREADY.  SWEATY HANDS, RAPID HEARTBEAT, NAUSEA....ETC.  UGGGGG!!!!!
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This is my second day using NV and I feel horrible. It makes me tired and gives me nausea. I don't recommend it.
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Short-term exposure causes depression of the central nervous system (CNS), marked by drowsiness, dizziness, headache, nausea, loss of coordination, confusion and unconsciousness. No effects are expected at 25 ppm. Exposure to 50 to 150 ppm produces headache, and tiredness. Nose and throat irritation have also been reported following short-term exposure. A period of feeling excited or giddy may precede the onset of other symptoms. Exposure to approximately 20,000 ppm for 5 to 10 minutes may result in death. In general, blood and immune system effects have not been documented in humans following short-term exposures, although these effects have been seen in animals.\n\nBenzene is also an irritant when in contact with skin.
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As a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked at a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."
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On Christmas Eve many years ago I lost driving in Caracas.  When turning around in a blind alley, I bumped into another car, and when I got out (stupid), four guys got out of the other car and threatened me with a knife and a couple of broken bottles.  Two of them jumped in my car and tried to drive off, but I jumped in the car with them (even more stupid) and I'm punching and kicking these guys while they're trying to drive my car (how stupid is that). My car ended mashing into a tree and the two guys jumped out and fled.  They were so freaked out by this crazy gringo that they even forgot to take my wallet.  \n\nSometime during this fight I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder.  One of the guys had stabbed me ... I don't know if it was with the knife or bottle.  I still have a scar on my shoulder from the incident several stitches ... it was not a wide slice, but it was a couple inches deep.   \n\nAs for how it felt, it was strange.  Other than the initial sharp pain, like being bitten by a large animal, I didn't notice any pain at all during the fight ... I was all adrenaline.   I was more furious than afraid.    Getting stabbed is not like getting hit on the head (I've had three concussions in my life playing soccer) ... you don't lose consciousness at all (unless you get stabbed in the heart or neck, which cuts off blood to the brain).  In fact, the opposite happens ... you start thinking fast and hard.  That's the nature of adrenaline ... you are completely focused on surviving the moment.  You don't have time to assess your damage or go "OMG, I've been stabbed."\n\nBut then afterwards, when these guys had disappeared, and I looked down and noticed my shirt covered in my blood, I suddenly realized I had been stabbed, and I felt a sudden adrenaline chill ... literally cold.  I remember being surprised ... even moreso that it didn't hurt that much despite the amount of blood.  I felt a bit of pain raising my shoulder.  I felt a little bit faint, but I don't think that was from loss of blood as much as just the sudden realization of "Are you nuts?!  What were you thinking?!"  A very strange set of emotions.
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There are no permanent to my knowledge, other than you'll be a hypocritical parent someday.  Short term effects... cotton mouth, short term memory loss, finding stupid things hilarious (Blue Beard the Pirate or the Tick) and couch potatoitis.  How to combat the effects drink Arizona Green Ice Tea or Mountain Dew and get outdoors.\n\n(All my high school friends smoked, but I never did.  My mom used to smoke so it was a form of rebellion.)  : )
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as your attorney in this matter i suggest that you leave the ether at home man, because you see yourself acting in this horrible fashion and there is nothing that you can do about it\nfear and loathing in las vegas