"It gave me a feeling of importance, you know, kind of like, I felt like I was the whole-the whole world was revolving around me ... where you feel like you are that important and you find yourself withdrawing from everything that is real, and you live in a type of spiritualistic level, like everything is very symbolic, everything has double meanings and [you] completely lose touch with yourself."-Illicit user of PCP testifying during U.S. Senate hearings on a bill to control sales of the drug's chemical ingredients.
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