Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) - How Is It Taken?

How Is It Taken?

In some religious rituals, participants drink brews concocted from plants containing DMT and other ingredients. recreational usersUsing a drug solely to achieve a high, not to treat a medical condition. smoke plant matter soaked in dissolved DMT, snort ground-up DMT crystals, or inject DMT that has been dissolved in a non-water solvent. Users experience nearly immediate—and sometimes very bizarre—mental effects, often including loss of touch with reality.

Even the most hard-core hallucinogen users have reported that DMT is strong, unpredictable, and can produce frightening effects. A report in the Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology detailed the case of a seventeen-year-old college student who nearly died of heart failure after taking DMT. The student had to be restrained at the hospital and was sent by helicopter to a regional poison center. His temperature at the time he was admitted to the hospital was 105°F.