PCP (Phencyclidine) is a powerful and particularly dangerous hallucinogenic drug with no medicinal applications due to its risk of severe side effects. Behavioral effects can vary widely from person to person, but may include psychotic symptoms, violence, and suicidal or self-injurious behaviors. Health effects can be very serious as well, including permanent brain damage, hormone disruption, and coma. Death from PCP use is rare, except for instances of accident or suicide while under the influence.
Though the drug has fallen out of favor since its heyday in the 1970s, PCP is still used for recreational purposes and can be quite addictive.
Because of its long half-life (usually PCP remains in the body for five to eight days), the detoxification process and associated withdrawal symptoms can take quite some time. There are currently no drugs approved for use in the treatment of PCP addiction.
Once the drug is out of the body, long-term treatment can begin, usually consisting of individual and group therapy and counseling sessions and a peer support group such as Narcotics Anonymous. If PCP use has led to a mood disorder such as depression, or a more sever psychiatric disorder like schizophrenia, then more specialized therapy and certain medications may be necessary.
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