Pasithea Powder (substance)

### Overview

Pasithea powder is a memory altering drug created at The Royal College. Originally conceptualized by Isabel Rowley, and created with the help of the future members of The Rowley Conspiracy as part of a "government [HRM] sponsored priority three project."A comment made by Jane suggests that Pasithea is primarily made of concentrated Azuline, and reveals Egorans are also susceptible to Pasithea. Although the substance itself is a powder, it is commonly administered as a dissolved injection to minimize side effects. it could also be snorted. Pasithea is also an effective weapon against The Others, and is administered via a weapon officially called P.A.S or the Pasithea Administration System. Sophie Green refers to it as a Pasithea gun.

### Effects

During the first 24 hours after injection with Pasithea, a patient enters an extreme fevers including symptoms such as kaleidoscopic auras, migraines, vomiting, and severe dehydration. Most patients need an IV drip in order to not faint. During these twenty four hours, a patient enters an extremely suggestible state. They can then be told to forget something, usually a traumatic event. This process is best overseen by a trained chemical psycho therapist.  Modified hypnotherapy is shown to ease post-injection fever.  Once memories are overwritten, they can never be re-integrated, no matter how often the patient is reacquainted with the lost events.

Jane describes the dangers of improper Pasithea Administration in Stab You In The Eye (episode).

> "Do you even know the worst thing about Pasithea Powder?
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> It’s not that you can take someone’s memory away strategically, or implant a suggestion so you have like a, a sleeper agent or whatever--sordid thing they want with it.
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> It’s that--it’s--you can change anything. You can say “Jane, you LOVE DOGS, you’ve ALWAYS LOVED DOGS, you’re a DOG PERSON”, which as we’ve established I am NOT, but were I under the influence of Pasithea I--when I came out of it, I would love dogs.
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> Except if favoring cats was--some essential part of who I AM, if the memories of dog-disliking that I’d experienced over the course of my life was FORMATIVE, was ESSENTIAL to me, then you know what might happen? you know how the brain might react to being asked to chew on itself? I could go out and adopt a dog and I MIGHT be fine, or I MIGHT drive us both off a cliff. I might make it home, I might take the dog on walks and let it sleep in my bed and then three weeks later I might bash the dog’s head in with a shovel.
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> The worst part is that as the doctor, right, as the person who GAVE ME THE DRUG, you don’t KNOW that dogs are so essential to me. YOU CAN’T KNOW."
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Based on the effect Pasithea has theoretically had on Dr.Isabel Rowley, maliciously administered Pasithea can wipe a personality clean.

1. ↑ You Are Mistaken (episode)
2. ↑ Live From The Telescope (episode)
3. ↑ "I guess I do know that the Egoran central nervous system is just as susceptible to concentrate azuline as ours is." -Jane The Pasithea Powder (episode)
4. ↑ Evelyn (episode)
5. ↑ reservations (episode)
6. ↑ You Are Mistaken (episode)
7. ↑ Evelyn (episode)
8. ↑ add reference