Drugs

According to the FBI, LSD can be classified as a club drug. However, club drugs refer to a broad category of drugs that are used primarily by club goers to enhance their perceptual and cognitive experience. The category includes MDMA (ecstasy), ketamine (vitamin K), and Rohypnol (roofies, or the date rape drug).

LSD is a powerful hallucinogenic, which lasts a long time. Most other club drugs do not last as long and most do not cause the same type of psychedelic experiences such as hallucinations.

Research shows that about 628,000 individuals aged 12 or older use ecstasy each month (National Criminal Justice Reference Service, 2013). These drugs account for about half of all drug-related ER visits. The use of most drugs has remained steady or decreased, but the use of club drugs may have increased, depending on the set of statistics that is used (National Criminal Justice Reference Service,...
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