| Disease | CHEWING INITIALLY HEIGHTENS SEX INTEREST,BUT DEPRESSED LIBIDO AND POTENTIA SEXUALIS COME AS THE DRUG EFFECT IS MAINTAINED:CHRONIC USERS MAY DEVELOP SEXUAL IMPOTENCE.LARGE DOSES MAY INDUCE NAUSEA AND VOMITING.
DRY MOUTH AND THIRST ARE USUALLY THE FIRST EFFECTS TO BE NOTED,PRESUMABLY BECAUSE OF ASTRINGENT LOCAL ACTION,THOUGH THERE MAY BE A CENTRAL EFFECT TO DECREASE SECRETIONS.
THERE IS INCREASED WAKEFULNESS,WITH RELIEF FROM FATIGUE AND HUNGER.IN LARGE DOSES,THE WAKEFULNESS PASSES ON TO DROWSINESS AND DEEP SLEEP.THE PUPILS DILATE,THE HEART BEATS RAPIDLY AND POUNDS.
THE USER IS HYPERSENSITIVE TO OUTSIDE STIMULI,AND STARTLE IS ENHANCED.
EXCESSIVE DOSES LEAD TO POISONING,WITH NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMATOLOGY:LOSS OF ARTICULATION,NEUROMUSCULAR INCOORDINATION AND COLLAPSE:HYPERESTHESIAS:TWITCHINGS:SPASTICITY:CONVULSIONS AND DEATH
PHYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS IN GENERAL MAY BE SUMMARIZED AS INCREASED RATE AND AMOUNT OF INTELLECUTAL AND EMOTIONAL ACTIVITY. THE USER THINKS MORE CLEARLY,THOUGH HIS/HER CONCENTRATION IS IMPAIRED.THINKING IS MORE QUICKLY AND THE USER IS MORE ALERT
INCREASED INCENTIVE AND SPEED OF ASSOCIATION MAY LEAD TO FLIGHT OF IDEAS IN EXTREME CASES.THERE MAY BE IMPAIRED JUDGEMENT AND THE USER MAY BE ARGUMENTATIVE,IS EAISLY PROVOKED TO ANGER AND IS QUARRELSOME.ANXIETY AND TENSION ARE INCREASED.
EMOTIONAL REACTION MAY BE QUITE UNSTABLE,WITH QUICK CHANGE FROM HUMOR TO TEARULNESS. MOOD IS INCLINED TO BE ONE OF ELATION EXHILARATION OR EUPHORIA DURING THE HEIGHT OF DRUG EFFECT,BUT IN THE RECOVERY PHASE THE USER MAY BE SOMEWHAT DEPRESSED
OVERTALKATIVITY MAY LEAD TO DYSARTHRIA,SLURRED SPEECH AND TO IRRELEVANT AND LOUD TALK |