The cause and effect of drugs seems like an easy topic to write about, you take drugs to get high and the effect is that it screws up your life. Well, thats just stating the obvious. My story is slightly more unique than that. I started drugs because I was not satisfied with the everyday life. Life was just too boring and routine for me.
My sophomore year of high school I discovered my brother's ADHD medication, Adderal. My first experiences with Adderal were pure satisfaction. Take enough of the drug and you will sit in one spot for 8 hours talking your head off and it will feel as if it was only one hour. It was the most content feeling i have ever experienced in my life. Adderal effects everyone differently, most just feel that satisfying buzz but for me it was so much more. I hallucinated, the best description I can give is the scene in the movie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when the main character Hunter S. Thompson does Acid. My favorite hallucination was one night after taking five 15 mg pills, I was sitting on my bed observing my room come to life, all the inanimate objects began to move. Electric tape held up a picture my friend a drawled for me on my wall. The electric tape left the picture and crawled across my room wall then across my floor like an inch worm. The hallucinations I witnessed were mesmerizing. I was terrifying that I was actually seeing these things but at the same time I couldn’t look away.
Any kind of trip you have from Adderal should only last 24 hours, but for some unexplainable reason that no one else was experiencing, my hallucinations weren’t going way. They were not as intense as the acid trip comparison as I made earlier but yet any wall I looked up at would begin to sink into itself, a...
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...ake lots of friends, insisting that my 3 best friends were not enough. I thought to myself, can no one really figure out was is going on?!?! I can’t be the only person this has ever happened to, is it that big of a mystery what is happening to me? Doctors, psychiatrist, and school consuelers were always left perplexed by my story.
I lived with these hallucinations for a year and a half, and then slowly the began to fade away. I almost miss my secondary vision, it diffidently made life more interesting and thats what I wanted in the first place. But don’t get me wrong, I still have odd problems that make me feel crazy, but none of them are as unique as this one. When I began to take Adderal I never thought it would have that kind of effect on me, but it diffidently justified the cause, breaking my life out of the normal every day, whether anyone believes me or not.
Hofmann, Albert. "LSD — My Problem Child." The Psychedelic Library. Web. 10 Jan. 2011. .
A very minute does can significantly alter ones perception to the point of hallucination. Hallucination is when a person hears, or sees thing that don’t really exist. LSD is the most potent hallucinate. Approximately 100 times stronger than psilocybin, and 4000 times stronger than mescaline.
For the purposes of this essay, I am forced to agree that drug addiction is a choice. People get high and drink because they want to and if they are not careful they can become an addict. The research I found on this particular topic seemed to have the most support and facts to dismiss the idea that addiction is a disease. I also beeivle if there was enough evidence to support the idea of addiction being a disease it would not be such a controversial topic.
... big role in hallucination. Serotonin which exits in the brain affects a wide range of conditions relating to aggression, sleep regulation, depression, anxiety, pain reception and etc. Serotonin most concentrated region lies within the hypothalamus and the pineal gland. Researchers have found that when its active potential carrying out the information of fear actually reaches the hypothalamus from the amygdala, the hypothalamus releases the serotonin into the system which provides assists to epinephrine and norepinephrine to prepare the body for the fight or flight response. When all of this is in process, the serotonin tends to cause the calm muscles of the actual blood vessels to constrict. As a result, the blood pressure tends to rise in the brain and the membrane in the optic or audio cortex begin changing, and that is what starts to trigger the hallucination.
As a serious mental illness, Brian Wilson was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. Schizoaffective disorder is a lifelong illness that features two different conditions: schizophrenia and an affective (mood) disorder. An affective disorder could be diagnosed as either major depression or bipolar disorder. In Brian Wilson’s life he had also been affected by mild manic disorder, which is a type of bipolar disorder. Some symptoms Brian Wilson had encountered were auditory hallucinations, weight gain, self-destructive behavior, and suicidal thoughts. Due to the experimentation of psychedelic drugs, Brian had experienced and suffers from auditory hallucinations. These hallucinations were heard as disembodied voices. With an aberrant increase of weight, Brian had experienced a lifestyle of a small amount exercise and excessive intake of drugs and food. Prior to being admitted in mental institutions Brian had displayed self-destructive behaviors such as splurging. He had allowed t...
Delusion and hallucination in their different forms are the major symptom of psychotic disorders. There is a growing evidence however that these symptoms are not exclusively pathological in nature. The evidences show that both delusion and hallucination occur in a variety of forms in the general population. This paper presents and analyzes the relationship between the above major psychotic symptoms with normal anomalous experiences that resembles these symptoms in the normal population.
Weiner, S. K., (2003). First person account: Living with the delusions and effects of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 29(4), 877-879. Retrieved from http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/4/877.full.pdf
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Drugs cause an overall disturbance in a subjects’ physiological, psychological and emotional health. “At the individual level, drug abuse creates health hazards for the user, affecting the educational and general development of youths in particular” (“Fresh Challenge”). In youth specifically, drug abuse can be triggered by factors such as: a parent’s abusive behavior, poor social skills, family history of alcoholism or substance abuse, the divorce of parents or guardians, poverty, the death of a loved one, or even because they are being bullied at school (“Drugs, brains, and behavior”) .
"The feeling of doing DMT is as though one had been struck by noetic lightning. The ordinary world is almost instantaneously replaced, not only with a hallucination, but a hallucination whose alien character is its utter alienness. Nothing in this world can prepare one for the impressions that fill your mind when you enter the DMT sensorium."- McKenna.
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