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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: Psychedelic effects of Flenfluramine
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.212936.9811@spdcc.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 21:29:36 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.203342.28823@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov13.203342.28823@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ahead@nyx.cs.du.edu (Adam Head) writes:
- >According to Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs (10th ed 1984) in addition
- >to Flenfluramine's (Ponderal, Ponderax) well known side effects of
- >sedation and sleepiness the drugs is reported to have been abused
- >leading to 'euphoria, de-personalization and perceptual changes'
- >following the ingestion of up to 400mg. Three from eight subjects
- >receiving 240mg reported 'psychedelic states'. Hopefully those
- >reporting these effects could tell the difference between
- >toxic psychotic states following amphetamine overdose and LSD-type effects.
-
- It's spelled "fenfluramine". This abuse was rather widespread in
- South Africa, where the drug had been available over the counter.
- This is why (unfortunately) the drug is now a controlled substance.
-
- >This form of the drug is a mixture of S and L isomers. Nichol's
- >rats have suggested the S isomer to have MDMA-like effects as well
- >as similar neurotoxicity (not proved to be harmful to humans).
-
- I can never keep the dextro/levo and R/S, D/L matter straight in my head.
- Dexfenfluramine, the dextro isomer, is being tested alone as an appetite
- suppressant. Apparently, the serotonergic actions (at least on appetite)
- are almost solely associated with the dextro isomer.
-
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