Definition Day: Eugeroic & Space Jam
Two more terms worth slowing down on — one pharmacology, one slang worth knowing precisely rather than guessing at.
Eugeroic: a class of wakefulness-promoting drugs, distinct from classic stimulants, that increase alertness without the same peripheral sympathetic activation. Modafinil is the prototypical example. Not a psychedelic at all — it shows up adjacent to this space mainly because people sometimes reach for eugeroics and psychedelics for overlapping reasons like focus or cognitive enhancement, despite the two drug classes working through entirely different mechanisms.
Space Jam: drug slang, not a Warner Bros. reference. In DEA slang documentation, "space" refers to PCP combined with cocaine, and "space jammin'" describes the disorienting, out-of-body-feeling high from combining the two. Polydrug combinations like this carry real, elevated risk precisely because the effects and interactions of the mixture are far less predictable than any one substance alone.
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