PCP Craig Spjute What is PCP Phencyclidine Its

PCP Craig Spjute

What is PCP � Phencyclidine � It’s a dissociative anesthetic most found as a white crystalline powder.

What is PCP cont. � It is readily soluble in water or alcohol. It can be mixed easily with dyes and turns up on the illicit drug market in a variety of tablets, capsules, and colored powders.

Phencyclidine

Here’s a little taste of what PCP can do to you. � http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=5 i. IX 0 Wh. GQ HA

� “Phencyclidine (PCP) was developed in the 1950 s as an intravenous anesthetic but, due to the side effects of hallucinations, delirium, and mania, its development for human medical use was discontinued in the 1960 s by Parke Davis.

Nicknames for PCP � There are many different street names for PCP, such as Angel dust, wack, rocket fuel, hog and lovely.

Forms of PCP � In its pure form, PCP is a white crystalline powder that readily dissolves in water or alcohol and has a distinctive bitter chemical taste. On the illicit drug market, PCP contains a number of contaminants causing the color to range from a light to darker brown with a powdery to a gummy mass consistency.

� It is available in a variety of tablets, capsules, and colored powders, which are either taken orally or by insufflation

How does it work? � “The sedative and anesthetic effects of PCP are trance-like, and users report a feeling of being "out of body" and detached from their environment. When snorted or smoked, PCP rapidly passes to the brain to disrupt the functioning of NMDA receptor complexes for the neurotransmitter glutamate. Glutamate receptors play a major role in the perception of pain, in cognition, and in emotion. In the brain, PCP also alters the actions of dopamine, the neurotransmitter responsible for the euphoria and rush associated with many other abused drugs”

Sadly… � PCP has been called the “Superhuman” or “Superman drug, ” BUT…

IT’S A MYTH!!!! But why do people think it does give you strength?

�People believe it gives you strength because it numbs pain… so people do crazy things like break out of handcuffs!!!!

Handcuffs!!!! � https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=ai. LZbi_kx. R k

� “PCP also tends to make people extraordinarily sensitive to light and sound stimuli, hallucinatory, and psychotic. They will see dragons, demons, all sorts of things that aren't there. A PCP user might sit by himself , staring off into space, and seem very peaceful and tranquil”

� “If he is subjected to a loud sound (such as clapping of hands or a door slamming) or a bright light, even turning the lights on in a room, he can go off and become extremely violent. Because of the lack of a pain response, it can take several large people to restrain a PCP user, even if the user is of small to average build”

� The drug drives up body temperature. Users can get unbearably hot, and may take off all their clothing and dive into any body of water — or anything that looks like water — in an attempt to cool off”

Amount has different effects on people. � Low Dosage - Feelings of euphoria, relaxation, numbness, sensory distortions, feelings of detachment from one's own body, anxiety, confusion, amnesia, illogical speech, blurred vision, blank stare.

� Medium Dosage - Confusion, agitation, analgesia, fever, excessive salivation, delusions, schizophrenic-type behavior, paranoia, disordered thinking.

� High Dosage - Seizures, respiratory failure, coma, fever, stroke and possible death. Since PCP is only made illegally, there is no way to know exactly how much PCP is actually being taken, making the use of this drug particularly dangerous”