PCP have been sold for recreational and non-medical use. Society and culture Regulation PCP is a Schedule II substance in the United States and its ACSCN is 7471. Its manufacturing quota for 2014 was 19 grams. It is a Schedule I drug by the Controlled Drugs and Substances act in Canada, a List I drug of the Opium Law in the Netherlands, and a Class A substance in the United Kingdom. Frequency of use PCP began to emerge as a recreational drug in major cities in the United States in 1960s. In 1978, People magazine and Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes called PCP the country's "number one" drug problem. Although recreational use of the drug had always been relatively low, it began declining significantly in the 1980s. In surveys, the number of high school students admitting to trying PCP at least once fell from 13% in 1979 to less than 3% in 1990. Cultural depictions Jean-Michel Basquiat depicted two angel dust users in his 1982 painting Dustheads. References External links Erowid.org – PCP Information National Institute of Drug Abuse InfoFacts: PCP (Phencyclidine) Drugs and Human Performance Fact Sheets on Phencyclidine Phencyclidine and Ketamine: A View From the Street-1981 article on the use and effects of PCP Arylcyclohexylamines D2-receptor agonists Dissociative drugs Euphoriants General anesthetics German inventions Medical mnemonics Monoamine reuptake inhibitors Nicotinic antagonists NMDA receptor antagonists Opioids 1-Piperidinyl compounds Sigma agonists Stimulants Wikipedia medicine articles ready to translate