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HALLUCINOGENS Hallucinogenic drugs distort a persons understanding of their surroundings by temporarily altering the chemistry in the brain. Hallucinogens became fashionable in America and Europe during the 1960s and in 1998, 10% of Australians reported having used hallucinogens. The most common and powerful of these drugs being LSD, which is the most potent and mood changing. The effects from LSD are unpredictable but the most common are dilated pupils, increase in body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure, sweating, loss of appetite and tremors. These drugs affect the senses, emotions, reasoning and brains control of muscles and certain body functions. Hallucinogenic drugs cause neurons in the brain to release a neurotransmitter called Serotonin. Serotonin is important to many nerve cells, such as cells that receive sensory information and cells that control sleeping and emotions, the released serotonin can over activate serotonin receptors, this can damage or destroy nerve fibres of neurons...

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