Editing Phencyclidine (section)

===Effects===
Behavioral effects can vary by dosage. Low doses produce numbness in the extremities and intoxication, characterized by staggering, unsteady gait, slurred speech, bloodshot eyes, and loss of balance. Moderate doses (5–10&nbsp;mg intranasal, or 0.01–0.02&nbsp;mg/kg intramuscular or intravenous) will produce [[analgesia]] and anesthesia. High doses may lead to [[convulsions]].<ref name="Diaz">Diaz, Jaime. How Drugs Influence Behavior. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1996.</ref> The drug is often illegally produced under poorly controlled conditions; this means that users may be unaware of the actual dose they are taking.<ref name="Neuroscience for Kids">{{cite web |url= http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/pcp.html |title=Neuroscience for Kids – PCP| vauthors = Chudler EM |access-date=2011-01-26 |work=Neuroscience for Kids}}</ref>

Psychological effects include severe changes in [[body image (medicine)|body image]], [[Ego death|loss of ego boundaries]], [[paranoia]], and [[depersonalization]]. Psychosis, agitation and dysphoria, hallucinations, blurred vision, [[euphoria]], and [[suicidal impulse]]s are also reported, as well as occasional aggressive behavior.<ref name="beyT"/><ref name=Inciardi/>{{rp|48–49}}<ref name="Diaz"/> Like many other drugs, PCP has been known to alter mood states unpredictably, causing some individuals to become detached, and others to become animated. PCP may induce feelings of strength, power, and invulnerability as well as a numbing effect on the mind.<ref name=NIH2018Fact/>

Studies by the [[Drug Abuse Warning Network]] in the 1970s show that media reports of PCP-induced violence are greatly exaggerated and that incidents of violence are unusual and often limited to individuals with reputations for aggression regardless of drug use.<ref name=Inciardi/>{{rp|48}} Although uncommon, events of PCP-intoxicated individuals acting in an unpredictable fashion, possibly driven by their delusions or hallucinations, have been publicized.<ref name="Morgan">{{cite journal | vauthors = Morgan JP, Kagan D | title = The Dusting of America: The Image of Phencyclidine (PCP) in the Popular Media | journal = Journal of Psychedelic Drugs | volume = 12 | issue = 3–4 | pages = 195–204 | date = July 1980 | pmid = 7431414 | doi = 10.1080/02791072.1980.10471426 }}</ref> Other commonly cited types of incidents include inflicting property damage and self-mutilation of various types, such as pulling out one's teeth.<ref name=Inciardi/>{{rp|48}}<ref name="Morgan"/> These effects were not noted in its medicinal use in the 1950s and 1960s, however, reports of physical violence on PCP have often been shown to be unfounded.<ref name=brecher>{{cite journal | vauthors = Brecher M, Wang BW, Wong H, Morgan JP | title = Phencyclidine and violence: clinical and legal issues | journal = Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology | volume = 8 | issue = 6 | pages = 397–401 | date = December 1988 | pmid = 3069880 | doi = 10.1097/00004714-198812000-00003 | s2cid = 33659160 }}</ref><ref name=wish>{{cite journal | vauthors = Wish ED | title = PCP and crime: just another illicit drug? | journal = NIDA Research Monograph | volume = 64 | pages = 174–89 | year = 1986 | pmid = 3086733 }}</ref>

Recreational doses of the drug also occasionally appear to [[Substance-induced psychosis|induce a psychotic state]], with emotional and cognitive impairment that resembles a [[Schizophrenia|schizophrenic]] episode.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Uchida M, Hida H, Mori K, Yoshimi A, Kitagaki S, Yamada K, Hiraoka Y, Aida T, Tanaka K, Ozaki N, Noda Y |title=Functional roles of the glial glutamate transporter (GLAST) in emotional and cognitive abnormalities of mice after repeated phencyclidine administration |journal=Eur Neuropsychopharmacol |date=August 2019 |volume=29 |issue=8 |pages=918–24 |doi=10.1016/j.euroneuro.2019.06.005 |pmid=31303267 |s2cid=195887087 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Luisada PV |title=The phencyclidine psychosis: phenomenology and treatment |journal=NIDA Research Monograph |issue=21 |pages=241–253 |date=August 1978 |pmid=101872 |url=https://archives.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/monograph21.pdf |veditors=Petersen RC, Stillman RC |publisher=[[National Institute on Drug Abuse]]}}</ref> Users generally report feeling detached from reality.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Pender JW |title=Dissociative anesthesia |journal=California Medicine |volume=117 |issue=4 |pages=46–47 |date=October 1972 |pmid=18730832 |pmc=1518731}}</ref>

Symptoms are summarized by the [[list of medical mnemonics|mnemonic]] device RED DANES: rage, [[erythema]] (redness of skin), dilated pupils, delusions, [[amnesia]], [[nystagmus]] (oscillation of the eyeball when moving laterally), excitation, and skin dryness.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Giannini AJ |title=Drugs of Abuse|edition=Second|publisher=Los Angeles: Practice Management Information Corp|year=1997|page=126|isbn=978-1-57066-053-5}}</ref>