whats the long-term effects of "LSD" on the brain after  80 doses?
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LSD can cause dimentia, a false perception of reality, slight visual distortions, sudden feelings of tripping even when you aren't, just to name a few.\n\nLSD is not known to cause significant long-term physical damage but is very likely to cause physciological long-term damage. Even just a few bad trips can be cause for this.\n\nI would suggest visiting http://www.erowid.org/ for some unbiased information research and also visit http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/home.php because it has heaps of info and personal accounts.
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SHORT AND LONG TERM EFFECTS\n \n\nShort Term and Long Term Effects\n\nPhysical Symptoms:\n\nSevere weight loss - sometimes up to 50 - 100 pounds. \n\nRotting teeth - teeth may first turn gray, then black; gum disease brought on by constriction of the gums' blood vessels can cause loss of teeth. \n\nBody odor - user loses interest in personal hygiene. The chemicals used to manufacture meth are excreted through the perspiration and emit a bad smell. \n\nScars and open sores - hallucinations cause the user to scratch or gouge at imaginary "bugs." The body also releases histamines which causes itching. \n\nInability to sleep for hours or days, followed by severe agitation and a sedated crash lasting many hours or for days. \n\nPsychological/Behavioral Symptoms: \n\nDue to the drug's ability to overwhelm and over-stimulate the users' nervous system, chronic meth users may experience any or all of the following:\n\nInitial euphoria - a feeling of great happiness or well-being; bliss. \n\nDepression - feelings of sadness, dejection. \n\nDelusion - a false belief held as a result of self-deception mental disorder. \n\nPsychosis - a severe mental disorder, with or without organic damage, characterized by deterioration of normal intellectual and social functioning and by withdrawal from reality. \n\nParanoia - a chronic psychosis characterized by delusions of persecution or of grandeur. \n\nViolence - physical force exerted to violate, damage, or abuse
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Duration of Effects: Following oral administration, effects onset in 20-30 minutes and desired effects may last only an hour or more, depending on dose. Other general effects last for approximately 2-3 hours. LSD is sometimes used in combination with MDMA to increase its duration of effects. Residual and unwanted effects are generally gone within 24 hours although confusion, depression and anxiety may last several weeks.
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The way it is harmful is that it that it removes you from reality causing you to do things that are deadly...like thinking you can fly so you soar off the roof of a building.\n\nIt can lead to "flashbacks" where you relive "bad trips" and since you never know when the flashbacks will occur, the fear of a recurrence often leads to panic attacks.\n\nLSD has not been proven to be a destructive toxic substance to the brain, but it does alter nerve conductivity and changes synapse activity.  \n\nI hope you are't going to be stupid enough to use LSD.
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I don't understand what you are asking... do you want to know what it does to you while you are "high?" or do you want to know the effects...\nThey are both wide in range. there are different chemicals that make the drug, and it is made by many people and not FDA approved so the ingredients are different every time. It is usually found in tablet form, and is very expensive. The drug can last anywhere from 5 to 8 hours, depending on strength and tolerance. \nThe high, from PAST experience is an altered state of reality, heightened awareness in all areas. prism visions in the eyes and increased sensitivity to touch and hearing as well. It is very enjoyable. \nAs far as what it does to your mentality... There are a lot of different theories out there. It is a relatively new drug, and there hasn't been much study as of yet to conclude any one thing. One thing is certain though it depletes your brain of your natural happy drug, it can leave you feeling depressed for a while after taking it, many people experience some mental distress as well. I have friends who have had an onset of anxiety attacks after taking the drug repeatedly. Too many for coincidence. \nObviously death an result, although not likely. \nAgain there are so many different types out there, and no one really knows the long term consequences.
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chemicals in the brain
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Imagine how you'll feel once it wears off and you eventually stop doing it... just think how much time you're wasting altering your consciousness and escaping reality (no matter how harmless it may seem now)\n\nI know you won't agree with me, and I don't expect you to, but trust me when I tell you that when you are old you will not want to look back on your life and have only memories of numbing your mind and being high. What do you want to achieve? Who do you want to be? You can reach so much higher and do so much more when your mind is clear. One day this will become real to you.
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Remarkable research and technological advances in the past two decades have proved that brain disruption and damage play central roles in the consequences of drug abuse and addiction. Knowing the nature of a problem, of course, opens the way for systematic attempts to fix it. Thus, today, finding ways to restore normal brain function after it has been changed by drugs is a main goal of NIDA research. (See "NIDA Pursues Many Approaches to Reversing Methamphetamine's Neurotoxic Effects") This goal involves two challenges:\n\nTo reverse the brain changes that underlie addiction, and \n\nTo roll back the loss of cognitive and motor functions that occurs when drugs damage and kill brain cells. \n\nTo approach the first challenge, NIDA gives top priority to mapping the sequence of neurobiological changes that takes place during the transition from voluntary to compulsive drug taking. Researchers have already identified some of the changes involved in two of the key phenomena associated with addiction: drug tolerance and drug craving. With respect to drug tolerance-the abuser's need for increasing amounts of drug to achieve the desired effect-we now know that drugs significantly increase the availability of dopamine, a neurotransmitter that activates the brain's pleasure circuits. When cells are exposed to repeated surges of dopamine due to chronic drug abuse, they may eventually become less responsive to dopamine signals. In recent months, researchers presented evidence pointing to a specific change in the dopamine receptor molecule that may be instrumental in this loss of responsiveness.\n\nAs for drug craving-the intense hunger that drives addicts to seek drugs despite the strong likelihood of adverse consequences-researchers have shown that it is related to widespread alterations in brain activity, but especially to changes in the nucleus accumbens area of the forebrain. An important type of craving experienced by addicts, called cue-induced craving, occurs in the presence of people, places, or things that they have previously associated with their drug taking. Brain imaging studies have shown that cue-induced craving is accompanied by heightened activity in the forebrain, the anterior cingulate, and the prefrontal cortex-key brain areas for mood and memory. A next step in understanding craving will be to learn what brain processes tie drug abusers' memories so strongly to the desire to take drugs.\n\nResearchers have also made a solid start toward meeting the second challenge posed by drugs' effects on the brain: the restoration of cognitive and motor capabilities lost because of drug abuse. Studies have identified specific brain changes that are likely causes of the persistent losses that are caused by many drugs of abuse. For example, they have shown that:\n\nInhalants can produce a variety of deleterious effects-including reduced vision and hearing, impaired movement, and lowered cognitive ability, sometimes to the point of dementia-by stripping the protective myelin sheath from brain fibers; \n\nCocaine causes repeated microscopic strokes in the brain, leading to dead spots in the brain's nerve circuitry; \n\nMethylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) damages serotonin-producing neurons, which play a direct role in regulating aggression, mood, sexual activity, sleep, and sensitivity to pain; \n\nAs reported on page 1, methamphetamine amplifies apoptosis-the normal process by which the brain culls defective cells-to the point where it also eliminates healthy cells. \n\nIn extreme cases, drugs can cause such severe destruction that users become severely disabled. For example, some methamphetamine abusers have developed a syndrome marked by uncontrollable tremors similar to those seen in Parkinson's disease. The method of heroin self-administration by inhalation known as "chasing the dragon" has rendered some young people nearly comatose with large brain lesions.\n\nTo counteract the dr
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LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, is a hallucinogenic drug.  I have no idea if it is used in movies or  not but the FBI isn't going to use it because what good is it?  Since it causes hallucinations, anything experienced or talked about while on it would be subject to speculation.  Truth would not be obtained from using a drug that makes you see,  hear or think things that don't exist.\n\nLSD, or acid, is also notorious for causing "bad trips".  At the height of LSD usage, death was rampant due to people thinking they could perform super-human feats such as flying, stopping trains, etc.\n\nI worked ER and I remember one guy who was brought in because he saw "bugs" everywhere!  He was freaked out because he could see them covering every surface of the exam room, the doctor and me.  He got a good healthy dose of haldol and was then closely watched until the medication took effect.
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You can stick your hand in a drum of LSD and live. I don't believe a lethal dose has been determined. And it is such a highly regulated drug that government experiments are not allowed.
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Methamphetamine affects your brain. In the short term, meth causes mind and mood changes such as anxiety, euphoria, and depression. Long-term effects can include chronic fatigue, paranoid or delusional thinking, and permanent psychological damage.\n\nMethamphetamine affects your body. Over “amping” on any type of speed is pretty risky. Creating a false sense of energy, these drugs push the body faster and further than it's meant to go. It increases the heart rate, blood pressure, and risk of stroke.\n\nMethamphetamine affects your self-control. Meth is a powerfully addictive drug that can cause aggression and violent or psychotic behavior.\n\nMethamphetamine is not what it seems. Even speed drugs are not always safe. Giga-jolts of the well-known stimulants caffeine or ephedrine can cause stroke or cardiac arrest when overused or used by people with a sensitivity to them.\n\nMethamphetamine can kill you. An overdose of meth can result in heart failure. Long-term physical effects such as liver, kidney, and lung damage may also kill you.\n\nThere are many places to get free help and support. Here are a few:\nhttp://www.crystalmeth.org/\nhttp://www.addict-help.com/\nhttp://www.methmadness.com/recoverylinks.html
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no, i had it for more than 2 yrs with no side effects,,,,and no benefits either, try exercise......its much better for your health and brain
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It will be detectable for approximately 6 months after the last intake. As for the effects themselves, the direct ones should pass after a week. The more lasting effects (such as memory problems) caused by long-term usage should disappear within a couple of months.
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CAREFUL....that's LSD
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nope\n\nthe LSD was fun for awhile\nthankfully, Jesus found me long ago
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Probably the same effects, just longer to "hit". You can go to www.erowid.com and maybe there's some info on that. Anyway, you shouldn't touch devil's candy, just check out the streets of SF in some places and you'll see what I mean.
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Regular use of ecstasy can lead to psychological dependence (when you feel you cannot do without something), sleep problems, lethargy and severe depression. There is also a danger of over heating and dehydration.\n\nThe more you take ecstasy, the more you’ll need to take to have the same effect, as you will build up a tolerance to it. No one yet knows the possible long term effects of regularly taking ecstasy, though it will increase the risk of you suffering long-term paranoia or psychosis. Recent research suggests it could cause liver and kidney problems.