What is psilocybin?

After listening to Farshad's talk, I went to experts, psychologists and psychiatrists in the field of addiction to get information about my mushroom, but all of them, except for one person, refused to give information about this drug, stating that the use of this drug is not yet widespread in Iran. They evaded until Saeed Safatian, the head of the demand reduction working group in the independent anti-narcotics committee of the Expediency Council, introduced this article to us.

He said: "Mushroom" originally originated in South America, and from there it has been entering Iran for one or two years. This material is available in the market in two forms: mushroom and sheet.

According to Safatian, the scientific name of this mushroom is "psilocybin" and it is also known as magic mushroom. Mushrooms are used orally and are well absorbed through the digestive system. Even if this mushroom is dried or cooked, it will not lose its poisonous power.

The active ingredients of the mushroom stimulate the sympathetic nervous system in the body. The sympathetic system is activated in dealing with any kind of stress and emotion so that the body has the ability to deal with the situation. Heart rate and blood pressure increase, pupils dilate and facial flushing is visible. The hair on the person's body is spiky, the muscles are stiff and the body temperature increases.

The level of illusion of this drug is very high and it affects the senses as well, it is possible that the person sees his sense of sight, hearing and touch disturbed and observes things that he has not heard before, hears words from beings that do not speak.

As this addiction psychologist explains, another type of "mushroom" is in the form of small sheets of edible paper, which become hallucinogenic by rubbing mushrooms on them. These sheets also have the same properties as mushrooms and make a person hallucinate.

Variable and cheap price

Expressing his surprise at finding one of the "mushroom" users, he said: I am surprised how you found the disease with these characteristics, because so far I have not received a report from clinics and addiction treatment centers about accepting such people.

The head of the demand reduction working group in the independent anti-narcotics committee of the Expediency Council expressed his ignorance about the price of this drug and said: "Mushroom" cannot be given a specific price because this drug does not have a fixed price due to its specific customers.

He called for the intervention of the guardian institutions in the matter of youth education and emphasized: We should not let time get lost and think of a solution after the market is provided with this article. This substance has very dangerous hallucinatory effects and its effect is not less if not more than that of glass.

As Safatian says, the level of awareness about hallucinogenic drugs is low in the country and education should be done throughout the country.

"Mushroom" is addictive

According to this addiction expert, all hallucinogenic substances are addictive, and mushrooms are no exception. Mushrooms, glass and LSD have no medical treatment and have severe psychological side effects.

He continues: Their non-drug treatment may last from 6 months to a year, and its side effects such as personality disorder, hallucinations, and anxiety are not treated. These people develop personality disorder from 3 to 4 years and lose control over their performance.

The strange perceptions of psychedelic users are hallucinations

Many times we have come across people who justify the use of psychedelics by saying "this substance helps us understand things that no one else can understand" or they say that glass and other such substances open the mind and allow them to think. Gives.

Shadlo, one of the psychiatrists of the National Center for Addiction Studies, emphasizes that all the strange perceptions resulting from the use of glass, mushrooms and LSD are illusions and cannot be imagined as a sign of reality.

He says: These substances have caused a disturbance in the senses and it is possible that the sound is received with the sense of sight, which we call the "modality" of the sense that, for example, the sound turns into an image, and there have been patients who claim to see the color of the sounds.

As this psychiatric fellowship says, in some cases perception in one sense leads to perception in another sense and empathy occurs.

In the definition of illusion, Shadlud says: When something does not exist externally and a person perceives it, we say that he is delusional. For example, there is no sound and he hears a sound or sees an image that no one sees. Of course, illusion has different forms.

He said about people who know that their thoughts are under the influence of drugs: this is called false hallucination because the person knows that his thoughts are under the influence of drugs and the person who has hallucinations has no awareness of his senses. The real illusion is that nothing exists externally.