Euphoria popularity

GHB is currently extremely popular in the dance club and rave scene. It is also popular among the gay community as well as with exotic dancers and strippers. It is primarily used for its ability to produce euphoria, intoxication, and enhanced sexual feelings. Others use it as a sleep aid or to enhance bodybuilding. Still others use it intentionally as a date rape drug. Abusers of other drugs, such as cocaine or methamphetamine, often take GHB to reduce the withdrawal... 

One popular miscouception is that modem autidepressauts also induce euphoria. This is not true. Autidepressauts do not lift the mood of nondepressed individuals. Antidepressants simply relieve depression and hopefully return a person to a normal euthymic mood. The lone exception is the bipolar patient who may have a manic episode triggered by taking an antidepressant without a mood stabilizer. Because antidepressants do not produce pleasurable euphoric feelings in nondepressed people, they are not addictive. 

GHB was first synthesized in 1960 and introduced as a general anesthetic. Because of its narrow safety margin and its addictive potential, it is not available in the USA for this purpose at present. Before causing sedation and coma, GHB causes euphoria, enhanced sensory perceptions, a feeling of social closeness, and amnesia. These properties have made it a popular "club drug" that goes by colorful street names such as "liquid ecstasy,"... 

Together with GFIB and ecstasy, amphetamines are often referred to as "club drugs," because they are increasingly popular in the club scene. They are often produced in small clandestine laboratories, which makes their precise chemical identification difficult. They differ from ecstasy chiefly in the context of use intravenous administration and "hard core" addiction is far more common with amphetamines, especially methamphetamine. In general, amphetamines lead to elevated catecholamine levels that increase arousal and reduce sleep, whereas the effects on the dopamine system mediate euphoria but may also cause abnormal movements and precipitate psychotic episodes. Effects on serotonin transmission may play a role in the hallucinogenic and anorexigenic functions as well as in the hyperthermia often caused by amphetamines. 

Ephedrine was a popular ingredient in many diet pills and muscle and energy boosters for decades. Ephedrine-based products were marketed to teenagers and young adults as having the ability to produce euphoria (feelings of pleasure) and increased sexual sensations, energy, and alertness. However, over the last decade, scientists have linked ephedrine use to numerous heart attacks, strokes, and deaths. 

The psychotropic properties and use of C. edulis have been known for centuries in East Africa, the Middle East, including Ethiopia, Tanzania and North Yemen (S). The medicinal properties of khat for the treatment of depressive states, as an anorectic and stimulant are reported as early as 1237 by the Arabian physician Naguib Ad Din (76). However, khat use has largely lost its therapeutic aspects becoming a popular habit among several million people who consume khat daily because of its euphorigenic and pleasurable effects. Khat is reported to induce a clear anorectic effect (77), together with euphoria. 

The effects of MDMA and MDA are both stimulating and hallucinogenic. The drugs have become very popular at raves, where young adults gather to dance and do drugs for hours. Users report that MDMA not only produces stimulation and euphoria but also increased tactile sensation as well as loss of inhibitions. 

In the 1960s GHB was developed as an anesthetic s ent. Like PGP, it had serious side effects (seizure-like activity) and its use y/as discontinued. In the 1980s GHB was sold in the health food industry as a growth hormone stimulator and was supposed to help body builders gain muscle mass. It was also sold as a sleep aid. It became a popular recreational drug because in low doses it can have an aphrodisiac effect as well as cause relaxation and euphoria. However, at higher doses it causes coma and amnesia. These effects made it effective as a date rape ... 

Age The popularity of codeine in pediatric anesthesia has been questioned [67 ]. Codeine is associated with a number of adverse events—constipation, nausea and vomiting, euphoria, itching, dry mouth, drowsiness, meiosis, urinary retention, hypotension, and respiratory depression. Intravenous codeine can cause profound hypotension and tonic-clonic seizures. It should be avoided in breast feeding. Using codeine concomitantly with other drugs, such as antitussives, can result in serious harm. Despite such evidence, codeine remains a popular choice. 

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is an anesthetic commonly used for dental procedures. Because of the euphoria caused by inhaling it, N2O is commonly known as laughing gas. It is licensed for use as a food additive and as an aerosol propellant. It is used to displace air from potato chip bags to extend shelf life and as the propellant in whipped cream canisters. In recent years N2O has become popular as a recreational drug, due in part to its ready availability to consumers. Although N2O is legal, it is regulated by the FDA its sale and distribution for the purpose of human consmnption are not permitted. 

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