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Discussion => Drug safety => Topic started by: psychedelia on December 16, 2012, 12:14 am

Title: Teens traded PlayStation for LSD
Post by: psychedelia on December 16, 2012, 12:14 am
 Two Washington County teenagers who traded a video gaming console for six “hits” of LSD on Wednesday required treatment in local hospitals after taking the drugs.

State police at Washington released few details about the 14-year-old Fallowfield boys in an incident report that said the pair had a bad trip and were treated in Mon Valley Hospital in Carroll, and one had to be transferred to Children‘s Hospital of Pittsburgh for further treatment and observation.

Trooper David Hamer said the teenagers traded a PlayStation gaming system for the LSD, which they consumed later in the day. A hit of the drug usually sells for $5 to $15 on the street.

Dr. Michael Lynch, medical director of the Pittsburgh Poison Center, said ingestion of LSD, a hallucinogen commonly called “acid,” is normally not as dangerous as heroin or prescription pain medications such as Oxycontin. He noted that LSD is not poisonous.

Unlike heroin and other opiates and pain medications, there is no effect on the lungs or heart. Deaths occur with heroin and Oxycontin when a user “physically stops breathing,” he said.

LSD users feel an immense sense of euphoria or schizophrenia (lol?), according to Lynch and Westmoreland County veteran Detective Tony Marcocci.

Small pieces of absorbent paper are placed in the mouth, under the tongue or against a cheek, and the LSD is absorbed through the skin.

A high usually lasts four to eight hours, Lynch said.

A person using LSD could experience an “outside body experience,” alteration of their senses and how they perceive the world around them, Lynch and Marcocci said.

“It‘s both visual and more sensitive to the touch. People touch a lot of things … furry types of things, and everything supposedly feels interesting,” Lynch said.

“They also describe a sort of reversal of senses where they‘re seeing music or hearing colors. But again, different people describe the high differently,” he added.

Marcocci said that with higher doses everything around the user could appear to melt, move or change.

“Your thoughts become bizarre and often confused. Most of our young users who seek treatment often end up in the psych ward for being schizo,” he said.

Read more: http://triblive.com/news/westmoreland/3130446-74/lsd-lynch-traded#ixzz2FAXVB1LG
Title: Re: Teens traded PlayStation for LSD
Post by: James Hardens Beard on December 16, 2012, 12:57 am
Shit, the dealer made off like a bandit. Six hits of acid for a playstation? Fuck yeah. The kids probably just had a bad trip because they realized they no longer had a ps3.
Title: Re: Teens traded PlayStation for LSD
Post by: berry13 on December 16, 2012, 09:15 am
They probably met the dealer through craigslist. Funny what kids will do there for small amounts of "hard to find" subtstance  ::)
Title: Re: Teens traded PlayStation for LSD
Post by: Formulaic Archaic on December 18, 2012, 05:46 am
In the incredibly wise words of a fictional movie character: "Stupid is as stupid does"