Psychochemical agents

For many of these pioneers, the right to self-administer intelligently and responsibly with psychochemical agents for a wide range of explorative and therapeutic purposes is plainly and simply a requisite freedom. It is a freedom that many persist in exercising despite awesome barricades of opposition—and a freedom whose fruits they continue to offer to those who oppose them. And so I close with an invocation offered by the author of the unique volume you now hold in your hands There is no synonym for freedom."... 

Psychotomimetic (psychochemical) agents Pharmaceutical chemical compounds that cause symptoms similar to psychotic disorders, debilitating the victim through disorientation, confusion and hallucination. 

During the same period, the Army Chemical Corps contracted with various universities, state hospitals, and medical foundations to research the disruptive influences that psychochemical agents could have on combat troops. The Air Force also conducted... 

Psychochemical Agents, Chemical Warfare Laboratories Report No. 2071, 14 September 1956. 

POSSIBLE APPROACHES TO INCAPACITATION Nonchemical Agents Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents Psychochemical Agents... 

Nausea-producing agents (eg, DM) may have substantial effectiveness but they can be toxic. Highly potent relatives of apomorphine (a well-known emetic) are known but they have rather low safety margins. (For further discussion of CN, CS, and DM, see Chapter 12, Riot Control Agents.) Psychochemical Agents... 

In 1958, Van Sim requested 200 volunteers, to help study the effects of psychochemicals on military tasks. Although the Chief of the Chemical Corps Chief approved this request, the Secretary of the Army apparently had no direct role in the approval. This omission established two precedents (1) a class of chemical agents ( psychochemicals ) could be studied without specificity and (2) an approval could be valid without written endorsement by the Secretary of the Army. 

BZ (QNB) Quinuclidinebenzillate, an incapacitating psychotomimetic agent developed in the 1950s. This psychochemical hallucinogen substance affects the nervous system, causing fake visual and aural perceptions and a sense of unreality. 

Long-Term Health Effects of Short-Term Exposure to Chemical Agents. Vol. 2. Cholinesterase Reactivators, Psychochemicals, and Irritants and Vesicants. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press, 1984. 330 pp. 

National Research Council, 1984. Possible long-term health effects of short-term exposure to chemical warfare agents. Volume 2 Cholinesterase reactivators, psychochemicals and irritants and vesicants Committee on Toxicology. National Academy Press, Washington, DC. 

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