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What is poppers?
The word "poppers" is the common designation for derivatives nitrite. The best known nitrite derivatives are amyl nitrite, butyl nitrite, isopropyl nitrite, amyl nitrite and cyclohexyl nitrite. These nitrites are present more or less in the same manner and have the same effects.
 
 
Consumption form: 
Liquid yellow preparation containing vasodilatation nitrites, presented as aphrodisiac and euphonizing, taken by inhalation or, if the case arises, vaporized (and also used as deodorizer) in some gay discotheques.

 
 
What are the effects?
Category: Disruptive
Caractéristics: The poppers counter in sex shops, is a vasodilator originally used in medicine for the treatment of certain heart conditions. It is in the form of highly volatile yellowish transparent liquid, often bottle of about 8 ml to 30 ml.
 
Immediate effects:
Short dizzy and stimulating whiff; lively sensation of internal heat and exacerbated sensuality. This effect lasts a little more than two minutes.

Consumption appears: red patches over the skin, dizziness, maybe violent but short headaches, and increase in the internal eye pressure.

High doses effects:
They can create respiratory depression, damage the nasal walls septum.

Effects in regular use:
Serious anemia (fatigue due to the fall of red cell’s capacity to fix the oxygen), temporary erection problems, redness and blow up of the face, yellow crusts around nose and lips.


Concentrated, they cause violent dizziness, faintness.

In case of association to other psychoactive substances or medicaments, the risks increase.
 
 
Dependence:
None physical dependence was noticed, but it is described a psychological dependence, associated especially to the sexual potential of these molecules.
 
 
Legislation:
Since 2013, the poppers is allowed again.

 

     



 
 
 
 
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