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parks_canada t1_jegl34r wrote

Reply to comment by coniferous-1 in ELI5: If benzodiazepines are CNS depressants, why is it so hard to die from a overdose of them alone? by psychrolute

RC stands for research chemical, and sometimes they're called designer drugs. Really it refers to any chemical that isn't well studied and understood, but typically when people talk about RCs they're referring to drugs that aren't federally scheduled, and which fall into a legal grey area in many cases (allowing them to be sold on the open market). A lot of these are analogues of scheduled drugs, for example:

  • Clonazolam ("CLAM"), an analogue of clonazepam (Klonopin)
  • 1P-LSD, an analogue of LSD
  • MDMC, an analogue of MDMA
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coniferous-1 t1_jeglinv wrote

Informative, thank you.

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PK1312 t1_jegnhlb wrote

one little addition because i think the chemistry is cool- 1P-LSD is also a prodrug of LSD, meaning it turns into actual LSD inside your body, which is neat. It's like psilocybin in mushrooms- psilocybin by itself is not psychoactive, but in the acidic conditions of the stomach it turns into psilocin- the thing that actually makes you trip.

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