Scopolamine
Aliases: Scopace, Hyoscine, Maldemar, Burundanga, Zombie drug
Categories
Summary
Scopolamine is an extremely potent anticholinergic deliriant; doses above the therapeutic range can cause true hallucinations, complete memory fragmentation, dangerous confusion, hyperthermia, and severe dehydration. Accurate measurement is criticalβmilligram scales are required. Recreational use is strongly discouraged in unsupervised settings. Scopolamine is also used medically for motion sickness and postoperative nausea at very low doses (0.2-0.4 mg).
Dose Information
Light
Common
Strong
Heavy
Onset, Duration & After-effects
| ROA | Onset | Comeup | Peak | Offset | After Effects |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 15-60 min | 30-90 min | 1-3 hrs | 5-8 hrs | 12-24 hrs |
| Transdermal | 4-6 hrs | - | 24 hrs | - | 12-24 hrs |
| Intravenous | - | - | 1-3 hrs | 5-8 hrs | 12-24 hrs |
Tolerance
Build-up
develops with repeated exposure; anticholinergic tolerance
Reset
days to weeks
Cross-tolerance
Effects
Positive
- Spontaneous tactile sensations
Negative
- Pupil dilation
- Dry mouth
- Increased heart rate
- Physical fatigue
- Abnormal heartbeat
- Muscle cramps
- Muscle spasms
- Nausea
- Sedation
- Difficulty urinating
- Increased bodily temperature
- Frequent urination
- Restless leg syndrome
Positive
- Dream potentiation
Negative
- Delirium
- Amnesia
- Confusion
- Motor control loss
- Memory suppression
- Anxiety
- Paranoia
- Psychosis
- Thought disorganization
- Depression
- Dizziness
- Emotion suppression
- Information processing suppression
- Language suppression
- Thought deceleration
- Unspeakable horrors
- Time distortion
- Peripheral information misinterpretation
- Perspective alterations
- Shadow people
Positive
- Auditory enhancement
Negative
- Cognitive dysphoria
- Visual acuity suppression
- Acuity suppression
- Pattern recognition suppression
- Photophobia
- External hallucination
- Internal hallucination
- After images
- Auditory hallucinations
- Autonomous entities
- Drifting
- External hallucinations
- Internal hallucinations
- Perception of increased weight
- Vibrating vision
- Visual haze