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Abstract
Drugs capable of inducing illusions, hallucinations, delusions, paranoid ideations, and other alterations of mood and thinking. Despite the name, the feature that distinguishes these agents from other classes of drugs is their capacity to induce states of altered perception, thought, and feeling that are not experienced otherwise.
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23 entry terms
- Hallucinogen
- Hallucinogenic Agent
- Hallucinogenic Agents
- Hallucinogenic Drug
- Hallucinogenic Drugs
- Hallucinogenic Substance
- Hallucinogenic Substances
- Psychedelic
- Psychedelic Agent
- Psychedelic Agents
- Psychedelics
- Psychotomimetic Agent
- Psychotomimetic Agents
- Agent, Hallucinogenic
- Agent, Psychedelic
- Agent, Psychotomimetic
- Agents, Hallucinogenic
- Agents, Psychedelic
- Agents, Psychotomimetic
- Drug, Hallucinogenic
- Drugs, Hallucinogenic
- Substance, Hallucinogenic
- Substances, Hallucinogenic
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Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.
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QV 77.7
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Hallucinogens. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006213. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006213
- Hallucinogens. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen
- Hallucinogens. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194270