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Club drugs are generally used by adolescents and young adults. [2] [4] Club drug users take the drugs because the substances' effects enhance the experience of rave and electronic dance music clubs' pulsating lights, brightly colored projected images and massive sound systems with heavy basslines.
MDMA: Commonly known as ecstasy, it is a common club drug in the rave scene. Ketamine: An anesthetic used legally by paramedics and doctors in emergency situations for its dissociative and analgesic qualities and illegally in the club drug scene. Lean: A liquid drug mixture made when mixing cough syrup, sweets, soft drinks and codeine.
Pictured is the Club Z bathhouse in Seattle. Subcultures of psychoactive drug use have long existed within urban gay communities, since the 1970s disco era and before. These substances have been used for dancing, socializing, communal celebration and other purposes. [23]
Codeine is used to treat mild to moderate pain. [4] It is commonly used to treat post-surgical dental pain. [13]Weak evidence indicates that it is useful in cancer pain, but it may have increased adverse effects, especially constipation, compared to other opioids. [14]
Among young adults, 1.8% had used MDMA in the last year. [252] In Europe, an estimated 37% of regular club-goers aged 14 to 35 used MDMA in the past year according to the 2015 European Drug report. [8] The highest one-year prevalence of MDMA use in Germany in 2012 was 1.7% among people aged 25 to 29 compared with a population average of 0.4%. [8]
In addition to the dance and fashion aspects of the disco club scene, there was also a thriving drug subculture, particularly for recreational drugs that would enhance the experience of dancing to the loud music and the flashing lights, such as cocaine [58] (nicknamed "blow"), amyl nitrite "poppers", [59] and the "other quintessential 1970s ...
2C-B (4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine), also known as Nexus, is a synthetic psychedelic drug of the 2C family, mainly used as a recreational drug. [2] [1] [4] It was first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin in 1974 for use in psychotherapy.
Lean or purple drank (known by numerous local and street names) is a polysubstance drink used as a recreational drug.It is prepared by mixing prescription-grade cough or cold syrup containing an opioid drug and an anti-histamine drug with a soft drink and sometimes hard candy.