'I am melting, help me': The 30-year-old drug website that transformed psychedelic research
'I am melting, help me': The 30-year-old drug website that transformed psychedelic research
Thirty years ago, drug users flocked to a website called Erowid to describe experiences on everything from Advil to LSD. Today it's become a goldmine for researchers and governments.
"I am melting, help me." This is not only an unusual plea for assistance. It's also the title of a "trip report": one person's experience with the powerful dissociative drug phencyclidine (known as PCP). And it's just one of many thousands of mind-bending anecdotes filed to Erowid, a website that, since the early days of the internet, has built one of the world's most influential records of drug use and its effects. (BBC, UK, 21.10.2025)
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