Table 2 Emergent and master themes

1. SCs are unpredictable

Unpredictable effects

Rapid alteration of experiences from positive to negative

2. SCs take over people’s lives

Interpersonal context: SCs both take away old friends and give new ones

Interpersonal context: becoming asocial

Interpersonal context: the drug becomes a friend

Intrapersonal context: the drug hijacks the personality