The street drug Love Boat comes in many brain-warping varieties

The name Love Boat is currently associated with three different street drugs - marijuana soaked with embalming fluid or formaldehyde, marijuana soaked the dissociative hallucinogen in PCP, or marijuana soaked in both formaldehyde and PCP.

 What is PCP? The ‘angel dust’ drug used in Netflix’s The Stranger

In Netflix’s The Stranger, Thomas, Mike and Daisy are out at a gathering in the middle of a field, when Mike suddenly starts feeling weird. He’s smoked a joint, and think it’s just the weed that’s making him feel odd. When actually, Daisy’s laced his cannabis with PCP. But what is PCP? And why is it called ‘angel dust’?

Phencyclidine toxicity

UDS: false positive screens for PCP can result from dextromethorphan, diphenhydramine, doxylamine, ibuprofen, meperidine, tramadol, venlafaxine)

"Wet" and Wild: PCP's Horror Show

While the war against PCP that raged in the ‘70s—when the drug was briefly almost as popular as pot among suburban high-schoolers—has been won, the drug has persisted in the inner-city drug market, typically densely distributed in poor, violent neighborhoods. It remains a niche drug, appealing to a small base of dedicated users, but its unpredictable effects, which often send wet smokers to jail or psych units, pose outsized health, social and economic costs.

Aaron Hernandez: Inside Dark, Tragic Life of Former Patriots Star

Former Patriots tight end might have been one of the NFL’s all-time greats, but he could never escape drugs, guns and a life of violence.

Angel Dust Inspired a New Schizophrenia Drug

When scientists learned that PCP, also known as angel dust, can cause every single symptom of schizophrenia, they wondered if chemicals that have the opposite effect could fight mental disorders. That insight led to them to discover a new class of antipsychotic medications.

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The highs and lows of PCP.

Here's How You Know Somebody Is High On Angel Dust

One of the formerly legitimate uses of PCP was as a veterinary anesthetic. It makes pain all but irrelevant to the user. This lack of pain response is what leads to the myth that PCP gives people superhuman strength.

I Accidentally Took PCP And Went Crazy: 6 Insane Lessons

The following is an account from a very real person who, not too long ago, was admitted to the hospital during a deep drug-induced psychosis. We wondered what the hell it was like to experience something like that, so we asked him what was going through his head at the time. From within a drug-induced haze, he found out that ...

PCP: The New Rise of a Drug That Turns Teens Crazy

The angel dust of the ‘80s is back in a new form called “wet,” and teens are going crazy for it—literally. Jeff Deeney on how a drug that makes users psychotic is staging a comeback.

Phencyclidine (PCP) Toxicity

Emergency department providers should become familiar with how to manage patients with PCP toxicity since rhabdomyolysis, hypoglycemia, seizures, hypertensive crisis, coma, and trauma are several of the complications that can arise with PCP use.

Return to Angel Dust

Angel dust has taken a back seat to more recent scourges like cocaine and methamphetamine during the last 30 years. But the hallucinogen known for making its users aggressive, paranoid, even psychotic, has recently staged a comeback in pockets of larger American cities, says one of law enforcement’s foremost PCP authorities.

Risks of Dissociative Drugs like Phencyclidine (PCP)

The medical industry found that it caused disturbing adverse side effects in humans. They allowed it to be used as an animal tranquilizer when it was rejected from being used on humans. The risk of having PCP on hand became too great and it was classified as an illegal substance. Despite the fact it was discontinued by pharmaceutical companies by 1978, it is still used on the streets. It has seen times of popularity, such as use among hippies in the 1960’s for its hallucigen components. It declined for a while and made a comeback. In the 1970’s, a more potent “powdered” version of PCP showed up on the streets. There was an epidemic of PCP use during the 1980’s and it was mixed with other streets drugs.

The Effects of PCP Use

The history of this chemical substance dates back to the 1920s when it was initially developed. In the 1950s, PCP was administered intravenously, as a surgical anesthetic. Due to a number of unwanted side effects, it fell out of favor as a substance with practical medical use. Today, pharmaceutical PCP is only rarely as a veterinary tranquilizer. Currently, the drug continues to be manufactured in small amounts for research and testing, but the majority of the drug is manufactured illegally.

The PCP Story

Phencyclidine (PCP), a synthetic drug, is an illegal and mind altering drug. Phencyclidines are the single drug category which may produce signs and symptoms of several different drug categories including central nervous system depressants, central nervous system stimulants, hallucinogen, and narcotic analgesics. One or all of these symptoms may be present at some time. The presence and severity of these effects depends upon the person’s tolerance, dose, and physical makeup.

What is Angel Dust?

Actually, angel dust is more common than you might think. You don’t hear much about it these days, especially not in comparison to methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin – but it is out there. Angel dust is also known as PCP, or phencyclidine. It was created in the 1950’s, originally for use as an anesthetic. PCP is now a Schedule II drug listed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. Similarly, ketamine, a related drug, was developed shortly thereafter. Ketamine is known on the street as Special K, and is a Schedule III drug.