At school you’re taught that drugs can do some scary things. These effects can be blown out of proportion, and make it seem like a few tokes at a party can send you spiralling into addiction and a life of crime. The drugs listed below are worse than anything you were ever warned about.
3- Zolpidem The Sleepwalking Pill
Zolpidem is a drug with potential side effects like sleep-walking, sleep-driving and occasionally sleep-spewing
Zolpidem, more commonly known as Ambien is a sleeping pill that was developed as an alternative to Valium. And most of the time, it works pretty well. You can take one, fall asleep, and then wake up in the morning without further incident.
For some people though, zolpidem can cause people to do all kinds of crazy stuff while asleep. There are all the cases of people on zolpidem crashing cars and claiming to be asleep, and that’s just the warm up.
There’s a crazy story about an Australian couple who were both taking zolpidem. The woman hallucinated that she was floating above the bed before projectile vomiting like “that movie with Linda Blair”. Her husband strapped on a tool belt, loaded it with spatulas and tried to clean it up. “The next morning we thought it was a bad dream,” she said. “It wasn’t.”
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2-Scopolamine The Drug Criminals Blow Into Your Face
Scopolamines ability to cause amnesia suggestibility has been exploited by Colombian criminals.
Scopolamine is a drug that causes amnesia and suggestibility. The really scary thing about this drug is how easy it is to administer. Criminals in Colombia have been blowing powder into the faces of victims, who then happily empty their bank accounts or assist in the robbing of their own house. The morning after, the victim has no idea what has happened.
While there have been rumors of people being drugged in the US through touching business cards soaked in scopolamine, these have been debunked. Thankfully it looks like the drug hasn’t yet made it out of Colombia.
1-Nutmeg
The Hallucinations Waiting in Your Pantry
Nutmeg, despite a wholesome reputation, is in fact a hallucinogenic.
Yep the same stuff that’s probably sitting in your kitchen cupboard right now is one hell of a crazy drug. High doses of nutmeg can induce hallucinations; which has lead many people strapped for cash or wanting a legal alternative to the more famous hallucinogens to throw back massive doses of a kitchen spice.
These trips are normally unpleasant and more closely resemble psychotic detachment from reality as opposed to the psychedelic sixties. Accompanying the hallucinations is severe anxiety, and a sense of impending doom.
The physical effects are also pretty harsh with rapid heart rate and palpitations, dry mouth, nausea and urinary retention all being reported.
And you always wondered nutmeg was for…