Substance abuse psilocybin

According to the 1999 Ontario Student Dmg Use Survey, researchers note that substance abuse disorders account for the most prevalent mental health conditions in young people. As the abusing population increases, so will future clinical needs of this population. Psilocybin use can precipitate long-term mental illness. 

The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), which is conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMH-SA), provides statistical data on illegal drug use in the United States. For the purpose of the survey, hallucinogenic drugs were defined to include lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), phencyclidine (PCP), psilocybin, peyote, and ecstasy. 

The legal status of several of these molecules has been specified by the Federal Controlled Substance Act, passed into law by the United States Congress in 1970. Psilocybin, psilocin, DMT, and bufotenin have been classified as Schedule 1 substances by the U. S. Controlled Substances Act. Psilocybin and psilocin are essential nontoxic to body organs and do not cause physiological dependence of addictive behaviors (presumably the basis for the dangers of drugs of abuse as this term is used in the Controlled... 

Schedule I—The drug or other substance has (1) a high potential for abuse, (2) no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and (3) a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision. Examples Ecstasy, heroin, marijuana, and the hallucinogens peyote, mescaline, psilocybin, and LSD. 

Schedule I Substances with no accepted medicinal use in the United States and a high potential for abuse for example, heroin, marijuana, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), mescaline, and psilocybin. 

In 1968, psilocybin was made illegal. In 1970, in response to the epidemic proportions of drug use, the Comprehensive Dmg Abuse Prevention and Control Act was passed. The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) created a schedule for drugs based on their medical uses and the probability of abuse. At that time, psilocybin was placed in the most restrictive category as a Schedule I hallucinogen. 

Many natural and synthetic hallucinogens are abused by humans. The natural substances most commonly abused are N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), mescaline, and psilocybin (see Section 6.11). The most studied and the first abused (prototypic) synthetic hallucinogen is iysergic acid diethyiamide (LSD). 

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