Dissociative Drugs
By disrupting a person’s ability to think and communicate rationally, or even to recognize reality, dissociative drugs can result in bizarre or dangerous behavior.
What are dissociative drugs?
Dissociative drugs are a broad category of hallucinogens, drugs that cause hallucinations, profound distortions in a person’s perceptions of reality. They can be found in some plants and mushrooms (or their extracts) or can be man-made.
When under the influence of dissociative drugs, people often report rapid, intense emotional swings and seeing images, hearing sounds, and feeling sensations that seem real but are not. Dissociative drugs distort the way a user perceives time, motion, colors, sounds, and self. Users may feel out of control or disconnected from their body and environment.