PCP/Summary

PCP may cause psychosis and mania at a significantly higher rate than other dissociatives.

It is strongly discouraged to use this substance in high doses or multiple days in a row. Please see this section for more details.

Main article: PCP

Psychoactive class: Dissociatives

Chemical class: Arylcyclohexylamines

Oral

• Thresh				Common				Heavy
  1	-	3	-	5	-	10	-	15	mg
  		Light				Strong

• • Total: 4 - 8 hours
  • Onset: 30 - 90 minutes
  • Come up: 40 - 120 minutes
  • Peak: 2 - 3 hours
  • Offset: 1 - 2 hours
  • Afterglow: 4 - 48 hours

Insufflated

• Thresh				Common				Heavy
  1	-	2	-	4	-	8	-	15	mg
  		Light				Strong

• • Total: 4 - 6 hours
  • Onset: 3 - 30 minutes
  • Come up: 30 - 90 minutes
  • Peak: 2 - 3 hours
  • Offset: 1 - 2 hours
  • Afterglow: 4 - 48 hours

Smoked

• Thresh				Common				Heavy
  1	-	2	-	4	-	8	-	12	mg
  		Light				Strong

• • Total: 4 - 6 hours
  • Onset: 2 - 20 minutes
  • Come up: 20 - 40 minutes
  • Peak: 2 - 3 hours
  • Offset: 1 - 2 hours
  • Afterglow: 4 - 48 hours

Harm potential

• • Highly addictive with a high potential for adverse side effects such as psychosis

Tolerance

• • Full tolerance is reached 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
• • Motor control loss
  • Pain relief
• • Dizziness
  • Nausea
  • Optical sliding

Visual effects

• • Auditory distortion
  • Environmental cubism
  • Environmental orbism
  • Perspective distortion
  • Scenery slicing
  • Time distortion
• • Acuity suppression
  • Double vision
  • Frame rate suppression
  • Pattern recognition suppression
• • Visual disconnection
• • Geometry
• • External hallucination
  • Internal hallucination

Cognitive effects

• • Cognitive euphoria
  • Compulsive redosing
  • Conceptual thinking
  • Time distortion
• • Creativity enhancement
  • Ego inflation
  • Immersion enhancement
  • Thought acceleration
  • Thought connectivity
• • Amnesia
  • Analysis suppression
  • Anxiety suppression
  • Disinhibition
  • Memory suppression
  • Thought deceleration
  • Thought disorganization

Auditory effects

• • Auditory distortion
  • Auditory hallucination
  • Auditory suppression

Multi-sensory

• • Psychosis

See also

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