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Article: Close-up: LSD: "I'm losing my mind": a young woman's experience with the hallucinogenic drug LSD.(Heads up: real news about drugs and your body)
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- Junior Scholastic
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- October 27, 2003
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Sometimes when Amanda Contadino moves her hand in front of her face, she sees trails behind it, like the mark of smoke a skywriter leaves. Sometimes when she's sitting perfectly still, the wind and birds seem to swirl around her at dizzying speeds.
But there are no trails and there is no whipping wind. These sensory bloopers may be related to the LSD Amanda took when she was 16.
LSD, also known as acid, is a hallucinogen or drug that can cause hallucinations. In other words, it can make someone see, hear, and feel things that aren't really there. It is sold on the street in many forms, including capsules, liquid, treated sugar cubes, and gel wafers ...