What affects a drug experience?
Many of these factors need to be considered before taking any drug: • Purity (grade); • Dose (how much you take); • Setting (your environment and who you’re with); • Mental (state of mind); • Tolerance (the need to take increasing amounts to achieve the same effect); • Individual factors (including medications, immune system differences, sleep, gender); and • Entry (how the drug gets into your body). If you’re taking multiple drugs (legal or illegal) at the same time, one drug can increase or decrease the impact of the other. This is especially important to know if you’re taking medications, since dosages are given for particular reasons. Your doctor considers all factors above when prescribing; with illegal drugs, or prescription drugs that aren’t yours, it’s impossible to predict which drugs will play off each other, or even possibly cancel each other out. How drugs get into the body A drug’s effect largely depends on how it’s administered. Intravenous injection and inhalation are th
