Table 3 Categories, subcategories, and codes

Short-term consequences

Individual consequences

Getting euphoric, getting happier, getting stronger, getting more focused, enhancing the sexual ability

Social consequences

Getting more social, more acceptance in the society, family happiness after the first months of drug use

Long-term consequences

Physical consequences

Decayed and broken teeth, dry mouth, sunken eyes, many wounds on the body especially hands, wounded gums, many pimples (under or over the skin) on the face and chin, sleep decrease, having a noisy sleep, pain, and burning of the throat, getting thin.

Psychological consequences

Depression, having irrational beliefs about associates, thinking about suicide, getting insouciant about everything, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

High-risk behaviors

Doing dangerous activities like high-speed driving, committing suicide, fighting a lot, mistreating the spouse, loss of control of behavior, high levels of violence against associates, wounding their bodies, having sex with multiple people, decrease of sexual power, getting rougher in sex, Jumping from high altitude due to lack of correct distance detection, excessive talking, excessive anger.

Highly decayed memory

Forgetting words while talking, forgetting the names of relatives, breaking the promise, keeping on at something, missing the addresses many times, losing different things like keys, forgetting the password of the bank card, lack of focus.

Changes in eating pattern

Excessive consumption of drinks specifically soft drink, lack of tendency to consume sour things like yogurt drink, tendency to overeat sweats, lack of balance in eating, eating less

Hallucinations and delusions

Visual Hallucinations

Seeing strange things, seeing things other than their face in the mirror, the illusion of believing in things that are not real, the illusion of living with imaginary people, having horns on the head in the mirror, seeing someone sitting next to the bed at night, seeing a little girl with long hair, the illusion of seeing the elephant while driving, seeing trees as police officers, the illusion of seeing the sea and the ship, the illusions of hitting people by car (while they hit a cat), seeing small ants on the arm, claiming to see things that others cannot see, and the illusion of attending a big concert

Auditory Hallucinations

To hear the result of the football game before it starts, to hear a voice encouraging the person to commit suicide, to hear the sound of walking feet in the sleep, to hear strange noises

Persecutory Delusions

Conspiracy of colleagues to kill them, suspicion about spouse’s betrayal, suspicion about neighbors for the desire to kill them, the illusion of being chased by anonymous people, the illusion of an individual coming to the room and moving the thing, the illusion of being harmed by others and the illusion of cameras being in the houses they rented.

The delusion of having supernatural power

Believing in having the perfect sixth sense and the illusion of predicting everything (like results of soccer games)