How are the lungs affected by drugs? Because the lungs provide the oxygen directly and very effectively to the body, anything that is inhaled similarly enters the blood and ultimately the brain very quickly. This is most promounced in drugs…
Author Archive for admin
LSD
What is LSD? Acid, blotter, cheer, dots, drop, flash, hawk, L, lightning flash, liquid acid, Lucy, micro dot, paper mushrooms, rainbows, smilies, stars, sugar, tab, trips, tripper, window and many other names, some which describe the pictures on the squares…
Lofexidine
What is Lofexidine? Lofexidine is prescribed to reduce the symptoms of withdrawal from opiate addiction during supervised detoxification. The drug acts on alpha-adrenoceptors in the brain to reduce impulses in the sympathetic nervous system – the natural fight or flight…
Liver
How do drugs affect the liver? The liver breaks down or alters the chemical structure of drugs, gradually neutralising the affects of the drug. Excessive, long term drinking of alcohol can result in damage to the liver, including cirrhosis, which…
Legalisation
What is legalisation? In general, legalisation is meant to indicate that the supply and possession of currently illegal drugs, should be legally controlled in the same way that alcohol or tobacco are controlled in most countries. Decriminalisation is often meant…
Legal highs
What are Legal highs? Legal highs is a commonly used, but inaccurate term, describing a range of synthetic drugs that have come onto the drug scene since 2008/09. From May 26th 2016 ‘legal highs’ became controlled under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016…
Khat
Quat, Qat, Qaat, Miraa What is Khat? Khat is a green-leafed shrub that has been chewed for centuries by people who live in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula. In more recent years it has turned up in Europe,…
Ketamine
What is Ketamine? Green, K, Ket, Special K, Super K, Vitamin K, Donkey Dust Ketamine is an anaesthetic with analgesic, stimulant and psychedelic properties. Chemically related to phencyclidine (PCP), it has been used extensively in human and veterinary medicine. Like…
Injecting
Injecting is the least common way of using drugs but also the most dangerous. Drugs that are injected are mainly of three kinds: opiates like heroin; sedatives and tranquillisers; and stimulants (amphetamines and cocaine). These may well be mixed to combine…
Ibogaine
What is Ibogaine? Ibogaine use in the UK is relatively rare. The drug and plant is used by shaman in the African Buiti religion as a sacrament (to bring on a trance-like state). It is currently being tested for its…