Drugs behavior when taking

The point here is the same one I have made over and over again in this book. If you break into the Dream Drugstore, as you do when you take either a street psychedelic or a medical psychotropic, you are likely to experience impressive alterations in your consciousness and your behavior—some good, some not so good, some altogether bad, some immediate, some delayed, some very, very delayed, and some short term, some long term, and some, who knows, irreversible. Be careful. Drugs are not candy. 

When it comes to alternative medicines and therapies that, like gingko biloba, claim to enhance your brain function, never underestimate the power of your own expectations. Not only does your brain influence how you think and feel, but the nature of your thoughts and expectations can influence how your brain and body functions. Thus, if you expect that a drug will act in a certain way on your brain and behavior, then it is much more likely to do so, at least for a while this is the essence of the placebo effect. It s ironic, and possibly way too convenient, that your brain decides for itself how it will experience the drug that it has decided to take. 

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