Nitrous Oxide/Summary

Main article: Nitrous Oxide

Psychoactive class: Dissociatives

Chemical class: Unknown

Harm potential

• • Mildly addictive with a moderate potential for abuse
  • Exact toxic dosage is unknown

Tolerance

• • Full tolerance is reached develops with prolonged and repeated use
  • Decreases to half after 3 - 7 days
  • Returns to baseline after 1 - 2 weeks
  • Cross-tolerance with does not produce cross-tolerance with other dissocatives

Physical effects

• • Perception of bodily lightness
• • Dizziness
  • Headache

Visual effects

• • Auditory distortion
• • Pattern recognition suppression
  • Visual acuity suppression
  • Visual processing deceleration
• • Geometry
• • External hallucination
  • Internal hallucination

Cognitive effects

• • Cognitive euphoria
  • Compulsive redosing
• • Increased sense of humor
• • Anxiety suppression
  • Memory suppression
  • Thought deceleration

Auditory effects

• • Auditory acuity suppression
  • Auditory distortion

Multi-sensory

• • Synaesthesia

See also

• Responsible use
• Summary index
• Subjective effect index
• Psychoactive substance index