DXM/Summary

Main article: DXM

Psychoactive class: Dissociatives

Chemical class: Substituted morphinans

Oral

• Thresh				Common				Heavy
  75	-	100	-	200	-	400	-	700	mg
  		Light				Strong

• • Total: 8 - 12 hours
  • Onset: 30 - 120 minutes
  • Come up: 60 - 120 minutes
  • Peak: 3 - 6 hours
  • Offset: 2 - 4 hours
  • Afterglow: 4 - 24 hours

Harm potential

• • Produces dependence with chronic use and has moderate abuse potential
  • Exact toxic dosage is unknown

Tolerance

• • Full tolerance is reached develops with prolonged and repeated use
  • Decreases to half after 3 - 7 days
  • Returns to baseline after 1 - 2 weeks
  • Cross-tolerance with all dissociatives

Physical effects

• • Perception of bodily lightness
  • Spatial disorientation
• • Bodily control enhancement
  • Stimulation
• • Appetite suppression
  • Cough suppression
  • Gait alteration
  • Pain relief
  • Sedation
• • Difficulty urinating
  • Dizziness
  • Increased blood pressure
  • Increased bodily temperature
  • Increased heart rate
  • Increased perspiration
  • Itchiness
  • Muscle twitching
  • Nausea
  • Optical sliding
  • Temperature regulation suppression
  • Vibrating vision

Visual effects

• • Color enhancement
  • Magnification
  • Visual processing acceleration
• • After images
  • Auditory distortion
  • Depth perception distortions
  • Drifting
  • Environmental cubism
  • Environmental orbism
  • Perspective distortion
  • Scenery slicing
  • Time distortion
  • Tracers
  • Visual haze
  • Visual stretching
• • Pattern recognition suppression
  • Visual acuity suppression
  • Visual processing deceleration
• • Visual disconnection
• • Geometry
• • Autonomous entity
  • External hallucination
  • Internal hallucination
  • Perspective hallucination
  • Settings, sceneries, and landscapes

Cognitive effects

• • Cognitive euphoria
  • Conceptual thinking
  • Time distortion
• • Creativity enhancement
  • Empathy, affection and sociability enhancement
  • Increased libido
  • Increased music appreciation
  • Increased sense of humor
  • Novelty enhancement
• • Anxiety suppression
  • Disinhibition
  • Focus suppression
  • Memory suppression
  • Personal bias suppression
  • Sleepiness
  • Thought deceleration

Auditory effects

• • Auditory acuity enhancement
  • Auditory acuity suppression
  • Auditory distortion
  • Auditory hallucination

Multi-sensory

• • Scenarios and plots
  • Synaesthesia

See also

• Responsible use
• Summary index
• Subjective effect index
• Psychoactive substance index