LSD)AND MUSHROOMS

WHAT TYPE OF DRUG ARE THEY?

• They are ______________
• Hallucinogen - a drug that causes hallucinations (a misleading perception of reality)
• During a hallucination, a person may: ___________, ____________, and feel unreal sensations

STREET NAMES OF LSD

• Some popular street names of LSD include:
• __________
• __________
• Heavenly Blue
• Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
• ___________
• Yellow Sunshine

HOW IS LSD TAKEN?

• It is taken ____________
• It has four "forms":
• - Tablets
• - Capsules
• - Liquid- sometimes injected into ________________
• - Blotter (decorative slips of paper that have LSD ______________ into them)

SHORT TERM EFFECTS(OF LSD

• _____________
• Severe sweating
• ____________ pupils
• Fear of losing control and insanity
• Severe terrifying thoughts and feelings
• Hallucinations
• Short term effects can last up to ___ hours.

WHAT PART OF THE BRAIN DOES LSD AFFECT?

• It effects the ____________________ of the brain
• The brain regions that are responsible for consciousness are turned _____
• The most prominent effects occur in the ____________________ - an area of the brain involved in mood, cognition, and perception

LONG TERM EFFECTS OF LSD

• ____________ hallucinations
• Distortion of one's senses of ______ and ___________
• Fear of losing control
• Panic attacks
• A recurrence of the LSD trip, can happen several days after the drug is taken
• Severe ___________ or ____________

INTERESTING FACTS

• _________________ accidentally created LSD in 1938
• It became illegal in ______
• The army tried to make a weapon with it
• It has been known to cure ______

DIFFERENCE FROM FOOD WE EAT

• The mushrooms we eat come from 2 species :
• - ________ mushrooms
• - ________ mushrooms
• __________ mushrooms have over 200 species
• "Shrooms" affect our body in different ways than the mushrooms we eat

STREET NAMES OF MUSHROOMS

• Mushrooms are best known as:
• __________
• _________ Mushrooms
• Shrooms
• Sherm

SHORT TERM EFFECTS OF MUSHROOMS

• Some effects include:
• Fear and Paranoia
• Anxiety
• Uncontrollable ___________
• Lack of Coordination
• Strong Visual Hallucuinations
• These effects can last for ______ hours

HOW IS IT TAKEN? WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE?

• Consumed _______ - fresh or dry
• Usually chewed on or _____________
• Have slender white stems topped with brown caps.
• Usually white or grayish color if fresh
• Caps are rusty brown with off-white dots when _______

HOW MUSHROOMS AFFECT THE BRAIN

• Shrooms affect the __________ of the brain
• Causes the behavioral, perceptual, and regulatory system to ______________
• This allows the body to have the different reactions
• Causes brain to have over reactive imagination- due to the serotonin receptors

LONG TERM EFFECTS OF MUSHROOMS

• Some effects after repeated use include:
• ___________ Flashbacks
• Feelings or thoughts as if you were in the drug
• Psychiatric illness or mental illness
• _____________
• These effects can last anywhere from 12 hours to the rest of your life

Interesting FACTS

• Shrooms are sometimes used to kill the ______ within a person
• ___________ have accidentally consumed Shrooms in Europe
• Shrooms are said to go back to before the Europeans landed in the Americas