LSD Abuse
Q)
Is LSD addictive?
A)Most users of LSD voluntarily decrease or stop its use over time. LSD is not considered an addictive drug since it does not produce compulsive drug-seeking behavior as do cocaine, amphetamine, heroin, alcohol, and nicotine. However, like many of the addictive drugs, LSD produces tolerance, so some users who take the drug repeatedly must take progressively higher doses to achieve the state of intoxication that they had previously achieved. This is an extremely dangerous practice, given the unpredictability of the drug.
Q)
What are the slang terms used for LSD?
A) Common nicknames for LSD are: a, acid, animal, barrels, battery acid, beast, Big D, black acid, black star, black sunshine, black tabs, blotter, blotter acid, blotter cube, blue acid, blue barrels, blue chairs, blue cheers, blue heaven, blue microdot, blue mist, blue moons, blue star, blue vials, brown bombers, brown dots, California sunshine, cap, chief, chocolate chips, cid, coffee, conductor, contact lens, crackers, crystal tea, cubes, cupcakes, d, deeda, domes, dots, double dome, electric Kool-Aid, fields, flash, flat blues, ghost, golden dragon, goofy's, grape parfait, green double domes, green single domes, green wedge, grey shields, hats, Hawaiian sunshine, hawk, haze, headlights, heavenly blue, instant zen, l, lason sa daga, LBJ, lysergide, mellow yellow, mickey's, microdot, mighty Quinn, mind detergent, one way, optical illusions, orange barrels, orange cubes, orange haze, orange micro, orange wedges, Owsley, Owsley's acid, pane, paper acid, peace, peace tablets, pearly gates, pellets, pink blotters, pink Owsley, pink panther, pink robots, pink wedge, pink witches, potato, pure love, purple barrels, purple flats, purple haze, purple hearts, purple ozoline, recycle, royal blues, Russian sickles, sacrament, sandoz, smears, snowmen, squirrel, strawberries, strawberry fields, sugar, sugar cubes, sugar lumps, sunshine, tabs, tail lights, ticket, trip, twenty-five, vodka acid, wedding bells, wedges, white dust, white lightning, white Owsley's, window glass, window pane, yellow, yellow dimples, yellow sunshine, zen, zig zag man.
Q)
What is the extent of use of LSD?
A)
Since 1975, MTF researchers have annually surveyed almost 17,000
high school seniors nationwide to determine trends in drug use
and to measure attitudes and beliefs about drug abuse. Over
the past 2 years, the percentage of seniors who have used LSD
has remained relatively stable. Between 1975 and 1997, the lowest
lifetime use of LSD was reported by the class of 1986, when
7.2 percent of seniors reported using LSD at least once in their
lives. In 1997, 13.6 percent of seniors had experimented with
LSD at least once in their lifetimes. The percentage of seniors
reporting use of LSD in the past year nearly doubled from a
low of 4.4 percent in 1985 to 8.4 percent in 1997.
In
1997, 34.7 percent of seniors perceived great risk in using
LSD once or twice, and 76.6 percent said they saw great risk
in using LSD regularly. More than 80 percent of seniors disapproved
of people trying LSD once or twice, and almost 93 percent disapproved
of people taking LSD regularly.
Almost 51 percent of seniors said it would have been fairly
easy or very easy for them to get LSD if they had wanted it.
