PCP, The Dangerous Angel

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by  Marilyn Carroll

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GENERAL EDITOR
THE EIUCYCLOPEDIA OF
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The Dangerous Angel
Introductory Essay
JACK MENDELSON, M.D. and NANCY MELLO, Ph.D.
Harvard Universitv Medical School

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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
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PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS
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SERIES
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TheAddictivePersonality LSD:VisionsorNightmares!'
AlcoholandAlcoholism Marijuana:ItsEffectsonMind&Body
Alcohol:CustomsandRituals Methadone: TreatmentforAddiction
Alcohol:TeenageDrinking Mushrooms:PsychedelicFungi
Amphetamines:DangerintheFastLane Nicotine:An OldFashionedAddiction
Barbiturates:SleepingPotionsorIntoxicants!' Over-The-CounterDrugs:HarmlessorHazardous!'
Caffeine:TheMostPopularStimulant PCP: TheDangerousAngel
Cocaine:ANewEpidemic PrescriptionNarcotics: TheAddictivePainkillers
EscapefromAnxietyandStress Quaaludes: TheQuestforOblivion
FloweringPlants:MagicinBloom TeenageDepressionandDrugs
GettingHelp: TreatmentsforDrugAbuse TreatingMentalIllness
Heroin: TheStreetNarcotic Valium:andOtherTranquilizers
Inhalants: TheToxicFumes
S E E S 2
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BadTrips DrugsandSleep
BrainFunction DrugsandSports
CaseHistories DrugsandtheArts
CelebrityDrugUse DrugsandtheBrain
DesignerDrugs DrugsandtheFamily
TheDownsideofDrugs DrugsandtheLaw
Drinking,Driving,andDrugs DrugsandWomen
DrugsandCivilization DrugsoftheFuture
DrugsandCrime DrugsThroughtheAges
DrugsandDiet DrugUseAroundtheWorld
DrugsandDisease Legalization:ADebate
DrugsandEmotion MentalDisturbances
DrugsandPain NutritionandtheBrain
DrugsandPerception TheOriginsandSourcesofDrugs
DrugsandPregnancy SubstanceAbuse:PreventionandTreatment
DrugsandSexualBehavior WhoUsesDrugs?
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EDITOR, WRITER
OFUPDATED MATERIAL
Ann Keene
GENERAL EDITOR
OFUPDATING PROJECT
Professor Paul R. Sanberg, Ph.D.
Department ofPsychiatry, Neurosurgery,
Physiology, andBiophysics
University ofCincinnati College ofMedicine; and
DirectorofNeuroscience, Cellular Transplants, Inc.
GENERAL EDITOR
Professor Solomon H. Snyder, M.D.
DistinguishedServiceProfessorof
Neuroscience, Pharmacology, andPsychiatryat
TheJohnsHopkins UniversitySchool ofMedicine
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Professor Barry L. Jacobs, Ph.D.
Program inNeuroscience, Department ofPsychology,
Princeton University
SENIOR EDITORIALCONSULTANT
Jerome H. JaiSfe, M.D.
DirectorofTheAddictionResearch Center,
NationalInstitute onDrugAbuse
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS
PCP
The Dangerous Angel
MARILYN CARROLL, Ph.D.
University ofMinnesota
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Copyright © 1985 by Chelsea House Publishers, a divisionof
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LibraryofCongress Cataloging in PublicationData
Carroll, Marilyn.
PCP, the dangerous angel.
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(Encyclopediaofpsychoactive drugs)
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
Summary: Describes the chemical properties ofphencyclidine, or PCP, and its
original use as apresurgery anesthetic. Also discusses the physical and
psychological effects ofthis hallucinogen,which can cause serious mental illness
and evendeath.
1. Phencyclidine abuse—Juvenile literature. 2. Phencyclidine—Toxicology
Juvenile literature.
[1. Phencyclidine. 2. Drugs. 3. Drugabuse] I. Title. II. Series.
RC568.P45C37 1985 6l5'.7883 85-3730'
ISBN 0-87754-753-X
0-7910-0770-7 (pbk.)
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