PCP

Hallucinogens alter how the brain perceives time, reality, and the environment around you. They also affect the way you move, react to situations, think, hear, and see. This may make you think that you're hearing voices, seeing images, and feeling things that don't exist.

The impact of hallucinogens varies from time to time, so there is no way to know how much self-control you might maintain. They can cause you to mix up your speech, lose control of your muscles, make meaningless movements, and do aggressive or violent things.

Street names/slang terms:
angel dust, embalming fluid, killer weed, rocket fuel, supergrass, ozone, peace pill, elephant tranquilizers, dust, sherm sticks, yack, wet

Drug Type:
PCP, or phencyclidine, is a hallucinogen.

What does it look like?
In its pure form, it is a white crystalline powder that readily dissolves in water. However, most PCP on the illicit market contains a number of contaminates as a result of makeshift manufacturing, causing the color to range from tan to brown, and the consistency from powder to a gummy mass.

How is it used?
PCP turns up on the illicit drug market in a variety of tablets, capsules, and colored powders. It is normally used in one of three ways-snorted, smoked, or eaten. When it is smoked, PCP is often applied to a leafy material such as mint, parsley, oregano, tobacco or marijuana.

Short-term Effects:
• slight rise in blood pressure, pulse rate, breathing rate
• sweating
• generalized numbness of the extremities
• muscular incoordination
• distinct changes in body awareness
• drop in blood pressure, pulse rate, respirations
• nausea, vomiting
• blurred vision
• drooling
• loss of balance, dizziness
• illusions, hallucinations
• symptoms of schizophrenia (delusions, mental turmoil, sensation of distance from one's environment)
• inability to feel physical pain
• disorientation
• fear, panic, paranoia, anxiety
• aggressive behavior, violence

Long-term Effects:
• memory loss
• speech difficulties
• weight loss
• loss of fine motor skills, short-term memory
• mood disorders, depression
• coma
• death

Source: Partnership for a Drug-Free America, NIDA, DEA