Talk:Phencyclidine

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No mention of addiction/dependence

The article does not mention addiction and/or dependence. Does that mean that PCP is not known to have that effect on users? Or is this an omission? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.70.220.6 (talk) 13:44, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is an omission. Jamez Z23 (talk) 16:51, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Superpowers?

The "Effects" section still includes claims of superhuman strength. This is directly refuted in the wikipedia page Misconceptions about drugs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vivamoque (talk • contribs) 10:52, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Are you talking about this? "PCP may induce feelings of strength, power, and invulnerability as well as a numbing effect on the mind.[5]" If so, it says feelings of, which matches what the misconceptions article says. Jytdog (talk) 14:29, 4 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, I was talking about this sentence:

Other commonly cited types of incidents include self-mutilation of various types, breaking handcuffs, inflicting remarkable property damage, and pulling one's own teeth

I don't think people can normally break handcuffs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vivamoque (talk • contribs) 00:19, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done Jytdog (talk) 00:41, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

people cant break handcuffs normaly because it hurts. if you cant feel your wrists, it's easy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.104.140.51 (talk) 12:29, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Rubbish. Handcuffs are made of steel; breaking them is anything but "easy." If you're going to assert otherwise, you'd best have a mighty reliable source.

*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 15:59, 13 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

PCP users over exert there strength levels, in which they end up tearing their own muscles in the process, causing themselves massive injuries. If you squeezed your own wrist as tightly as possible you would probably end up breaking your own hand due to due to extreme tension, trust me. People on PCP don't feel that sort of pain due to the effects of the drug, the adrenaline and their heightened reflexes causes them to move their muscles rapidly and viciously. Imagine pulling your hands apart with extreme aggression, trust me, those hand cuffs would break. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C0:D082:7001:3CF1:8B5:92FA:37C1 (talk • contribs)

Pain or not, PCP or not, people cannot normally break handcuffs (if placed behind their backs). Some handcuffs with poor designs can be broken with the help of leverage against a hard object (plenty of examples seen on YouTube videos, criminals escaping, etc) or if they're placed in front of them. However just struggling with them properly applied, no, it does not happen. MartinezMD (talk) 05:10, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

When improperly applied (in front) or designed poorly:

MartinezMD (talk) 05:18, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

These men in the videos don't seem to be trying hard enough, they are relying more on some sort of technique in the spur of the moment. Some people can bend crowbars. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3779082/Las-Vegas-murder-suspect-captured-breaking-handcuffs-escaping-prison.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.80.155.185 (talk • contribs)

That's my point. The cuffs are breaking because of leverage, not superhuman strength. and I don't think people can bend a crowbar only with their hands. But that's not the issue here regardless. MartinezMD (talk) 07:56, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Crowbars aren't as thick as pipes. They're not that hard to break. Obviously, being metal they have great resistance, but as the more they give the more likely they are to continue to give. The longer force is applied the greater the magnitude of the force as it spreads. Humans have been known to cause metal to give, including steal, using brute strength. It's not unheard of.

Name?

Perhaps someone can explain how we get "PCP" from "Phencyclidine." I see only one "p" in "Phencyclidine;" where does the second come from? *Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 16:03, 13 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)piperidine — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.34.207.219 (talk) 06:15, 11 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Administration

No mention that it can be injected? Am I missing something? MartinezMD (talk) 18:36, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of sourced content

User:TenBingo - please explain this removal of sourced content. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 18:29, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Contradiction

This article appears to contradict itself: one paragraph asserts that PCP was discovered in 1926, whilst another claims that the discovery date of 1926 is a common misconception. 86.14.40.196 (talk) 14:32, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]