PCP

BACKGROUND

• Brand name is phencyclidine, it isa white crystalline powder that easily
• Desolves in liquid. It appears in a large variety of colors. It can be snorted
• Swallowed, injected and smoked. Ususally sold on the street in a
• Foil wrapping. The effects of the drug are felt within two minutes of taking
• The drug.

CLASSIFICATION

• PCP is recreational dissociative drug. It is a Schedule II controlled
• Substance. In the 1950s PCP was a pharmaceutical drug but was
• Taken off the market in1965 due to dissociative hallucinogenic side
• Effects. This drug is one of the most dangerous forms of hallucinogens
• It inhibits the brain funtions such as blocking NMDA receptors.

STREET NAMES AND VALUE

• PCP street names include angel dust, KJ, Ashy Larry, illy
• And wet. The street value of PCP as of January 2014 is $5-$15
• Per tablet and $20-$30 per gram of powder. It is one of the most
• Popular drug on the illegal market right now. It is highly addictive
• And it only takes one time to become addicted.

DOSAGE

• There is no way to know exactly how much PCP is actually
• Being taken making the drug particularly dangerous.
• Low dosage includes feeling of relaxation, numbness, feeling of
• Detachment from ones body, anxiety and confusion.
• Medium dosage includes agitation, fever, excessive salivation,

CONTINUING DOSAGE

• Schizophrenic type behavior, paranoia, and disordered thinking.
• High dosage includes seizures, stroke, respiratory failure, coma
• And posibly death. The feeling of the symptons last for about
• 5-8 hours.

EFFECTS OF WITHDRAWAL

• Weight losss, memory loss, decreased reflexes, confusion
• Anxiety, speech difficulties, depression, lack of impulse
• Control, coma,, suicide, and death. Withdrawal PCP of
• Should only be performed under the careful supervision
• Of a trained medical professional.

WHY??

• People choose to use PCP under the reasons of genetics,
• Those who see family memebers abuse drugs are more likely
• To abuse it too. Brain Chemistry, PCP interferes the communication
• Process causing the neurons in the brain to flood the brain with
• Dopamine. Brain Chemical Imbalances, that lead to lower level

WHY??

• Of pleasure or increased negative mood states. They do it to
• Feel a sense of control and it creates pleasure for them.
• Environmental plays a key role as well, life stressors such as
• Finances and family issues will be more likely to turn to
• Drugs to deal with the situation.

TOXICOLOGY TESTS

• PCP can ne traced by a urine test 1-7 days after
• Usage, and 1-4 weeks of heavy usage. PCP can be
• Detected 24 hours after usage from a blood test. PCP
• Can be detected 1-10 days after usage from a saliva test
• PCP can also be detced with a hair follicle drug test up to 90 days

POSITIVE HEALTH OR MEDICAL BENEFITS?

• Formerly used as an surgical anesthetic, however, there
• Is no current medical use for humans. It is used as a veterinary
• Anesthetic or tranquilizer.

LEGAL ISSUES

• As a schedule II hallucinogen, someone found with PCP faces
• Stiff penalities. For the first offense, penalities range from 5-40 years
• In prisonand fines of up to 4 million dollars. Repaeat offenders face
• A prison sentence of 20 years to life and fines of up to 8 million
• Dollars.

BEFORE AND AFTER

PCP CASE

• On May 5, 2011 a call was made to the police about a
• 5 year old little girl who was showing typical PCP-Like effects
• She was fed noodles laced with PCP. The girls mother Hope Brodie
• Age 26, had cooked PCP in a kitchen pot and used the same pot
• To make her childs dinner. The child was in stable condition after treatment.

PCP CASE

• The suspect Hope Brodie was sentenced to five years
• In prison. Her child was put into Child Protective
• Services.

HOPE BRODIE

INTERESTING FACTS

• When PCP is smoked it is usually applied to a
• Leafy material such as mint, parsley, oregano or
• Marijuana.
• PCP was first listed as a Schedule III substance in the
• 1960s which meant it was legal for medical use.

WORKS CITED

• Alcoholism.about.com/od/isd/a/pcp.htm
• Abcnews.go.com/health/drugs/connecticut-child-fed-pcp-laced-noodles-dinner
• Acadianaddiction.com/addiction/pcp/symptoms-sign-effects
• Nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/job185drugs/phencyclidinr.htm
• Ecstasy.com.ua/pcp-phencyclidine/pcp-phencyclindine-legal-consequences