PCPr is a dissociative

Dissociative drug

Dissociatives are a class of psychoactive drugs which are said to reduce or block signals to the conscious mind from other parts of the brain...

 anesthetic

Anesthesia

Anesthesia, or anaesthesia , traditionally meant the condition of having sensation blocked or temporarily taken away...

 drug with hallucinogenic and sedative

Sedative

A sedative or tranquilizer is a substance that induces sedation by reducing irritability or excitement....

 effects. It is around the same potency as phencyclidine

Phencyclidine

Phencyclidine , commonly initialized as PCP and known colloquially as angel dust, is a recreational dissociative drug...

, although slightly less potent than its ethyl homologue eticyclidine

Eticyclidine

Eticyclidine is a dissociative anesthetic drug with hallucinogenic effects. It is similar in effects to phencyclidine but is slightly more potent...

, and has reportedly been sold as a designer drug

Designer drug

Designer drug is a term used to describe drugs that are created to get around existing drug laws, usually by preparing analogs or derivatives of existing drugs by modifying their chemical structure to varying degrees, or less commonly by finding drugs with entirely different chemical structures...

in Germany and other European countries since the late 1990s.

Several other related derivatives have also been encountered, with the n-propyl group of PCPr replaced by 2-methoxyethyl, 2-ethoxyethyl or 3-methoxypropyl groups to form PCMEA, PCEEA and PCMPA respectively.