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Hallucinogens—psychedelics and dissociative drugs

Mark F. Petersen,U. Garg,Hemamalini Ketha

Published 2020 in Unknown venue

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Abstract Hallucinogens are a broad class of drugs that can be classified into several subclasses based on chemical structure and mechanisms of action. The term psychedelic is sometimes used interchangeably with the term hallucinogen. Hallucinogens are compounds that when consumed, produce psychoactive physiological manifestations. Physiological effects of hallucinogens include hallucinations, dissociative behavior, and aberrations in perception of the user’s reality and their state of connectivity to tangible reality. Other categories of drugs that are sometimes included with hallucinogens include entactogens such as methylenedioxymethamphetamine and atypical hallucinogens such as cannabis. Although hallucinations are side effects of toxic exposures to many other drugs including amphetamines, these are not classified as hallucinogens. In this chapter, classical hallucinogens such as lysergic acid diethylamide and dissociative drugs such as phencyclidine are described. Toxicokinetics and analytical considerations for these drugs are also discussed.

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