Liquid LSD

LSD is a mind-altering drug. This means it acts on your brain (central nervous system) and changes your mood, behavior, and the way you relate to the world around you. LSD affects the action of a brain chemical called serotonin. Serotonin helps control behavior, mood, the senses, and thinking.

LSD is in a class of drugs called hallucinogens. These are substances that cause hallucinations. These are things that you see, hear, or feel while awake that appear to be real, but instead of being real, they have been created by the mind. LSD is a very strong hallucinogen. Only a tiny amount is needed to cause effects such as hallucinations.

LSD users call their hallucinogenic experiences “trips.” Depending on how much you take and how your brain responds, a trip may be “good” or “bad.”

A good trip may be stimulating and pleasurable and make you feel:

• As if you are floating and disconnected from reality.
• Joy (euphoria, or “rush”) and less inhibition, similar to being drunk from alcohol use.
• As if your thinking is extremely clear and that you have superhuman strength and are not afraid of anything.

Effects of LSD

LSD can lead to health problems such as:

• Increased heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, and body temperature
• Sleeplessness, loss of appetite, tremors, sweating
• Mental problems, including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia

Some LSD users have flashbacks. This is when parts of the drug experience, or trip, return, even without using the drug again. Flashbacks occur during times of increased stress. Flashbacks tend to occur less often and less intensely after stopping use of LSD. Some users who have frequent flashbacks have a hard time living their daily life.