Halpern J H, Pope H G
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center and the Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA.
Am J Psychiatry. 2001 Mar;158(3):481-3. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.158.3.481.
The illicit use of hallucinogens is reemerging in the United States, especially among well-educated adults and teenagers. These same groups are also frequent users of the Internet. The authors sought to characterize the extent of information about hallucinogens available to Internet users.
Using standard Internet search techniques, the authors located 81 hallucinogen-related sites and categorized the information provided.
Internet sites offer thousands of pages of information-albeit of questionable accuracy-on how to obtain, synthesize, extract, identify, and ingest hallucinogens. Much of this information has yet to appear in textbooks. By contrast, the authors found few U.S. government agency sites offering cautionary material about hallucinogen use.
Using the Internet, potential hallucinogen users can bypass traditional channels of medical information and learn in great detail how to obtain and use numerous drugs with unknown hazards.
致幻剂的非法使用在美国再度出现，尤其在受过良好教育的成年人和青少年当中。这些群体也是互联网的频繁使用者。作者试图描述互联网用户可获取的有关致幻剂信息的范围。
作者运用标准的互联网搜索技术，找到了81个与致幻剂相关的网站，并对所提供的信息进行了分类。
互联网网站提供了数千页关于如何获取、合成、提取、识别和摄入致幻剂的信息——尽管其准确性存疑。其中许多信息尚未出现在教科书中。相比之下，作者发现很少有美国政府机构网站提供有关致幻剂使用的警示材料。
通过互联网，潜在的致幻剂使用者可以绕过传统的医学信息渠道，并详细了解如何获取和使用众多具有未知危害的药物。
