Zolpidem/Summary

Main article: Zolpidem

Psychoactive class: Depressant, Hallucinogens

Chemical class: Imidazopyridine

Oral

• Thresh				Common				Heavy
  5	-	10	-	20	-	30	-	50	mg
  		Light				Strong

• • Total: 5 - 10 hours
  • Onset: 15 - 45 minutes
  • Come up: 30 - 45 minutes
  • Peak: 3 - 6 hours
  • Offset: 4 - 5 hours
  • Afterglow: 2 - 4 hours

Harm potential

• • Moderately addictive
  • Low toxicity, potentially lethal when mixed with depressants like alcohol or opioids

Physical effects

• • Respiratory depression
  • Sedation
• • Dizziness
  • Increased blood pressure
  • Increased heart rate
  • Nausea
  • Respiratory depression

Visual effects

• • Magnification
• • After images
  • Depth perception distortions
  • Drifting
  • Object activation
  • Object alteration
  • Time distortion
• • Peripheral information misinterpretation
  • Visual acuity suppression
• • Visual disconnection
• • Geometry
• • Autonomous entity
  • External hallucination
  • Internal hallucination
  • Object activation
  • Perspective hallucination
  • Settings, sceneries, and landscapes
  • Shadow people
  • Transformations

Cognitive effects

• • Cognitive euphoria
  • Compulsive redosing
  • Time distortion
• • Empathy, affection and sociability enhancement
  • Increased libido
  • Increased music appreciation
• • Anxiety suppression
  • Disinhibition
  • Emotion suppression
  • Memory suppression
  • Sleepiness
  • Thought deceleration

Auditory effects

• • Auditory acuity enhancement
  • Auditory hallucination

Multi-sensory

• • Psychosis
  • Scenarios and plots

See also

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