Psychoactive drugs
are chemicals that affect the central nervous system and alter activity in the brain, change the functioning of the central nervous system.
Amphetamines
a stimulant used in prescription medicines to reduce fatigue and drowsiness and to suppress the appetite.
Tranquilizers
depressant that reduces muscular activity, coordination, and attention span.
Heroin
a highly addictive narcotic, is a processed form of morphine that is injected, snorted, or smoked.
Ketamine-
an anesthetic used for medical purposes, mostly animals. Misused as a club drug, it is often snorted, like cocaine, or injected. It may result in death by respiratory failure.
Codeine
a narcotic that is an ingredient in cough medications. It relieves pain by blocking pain messengers in the brain.
Stimulants
are drugs that speed up the central nervous system.
Methamphetamine
a stimulant used in prescription medicines to reduce fatigue and drowsiness and to suppress the appetite. They are used illegally to stay awake and alert, to improve athletic performance, and to lose weight.
Rohypnol-
a depressant which is ten times as strong as tranquilizers, is better known as the date rape drug.
Hallucinogens-
are drugs that alter mood, thoughts, and sense perceptions including vision, hearing, smell, and touch.
Mushrooms-
psilocybin are the hallucinogenic principles contained in this drug. It can be eaten, brewed, and consumed as tea.
Ecstasy
also call MDMA, this drug is a combination stimulant and hallucinogen that gives a feeling of euphoria but often causes confusion, depression, paranoia, and psychosis.
Cocaine-
a rapid-acting, powerful, highly addictive stimulant that interrupts normal functioning of the central nervous system.
Depressants-
are drugs that tend to slow down the central nervous system. Also called sedatives.
GHB
a club drug that is similar to rohypnol. It is available in a clear liquid, a white powder, and in a variety of tablets and capsules.
PCP-
is considered one of the most dangerous of all drugs. User report distorted sense of time and space, increased muscle strength, and inability to feel pain.
Opium-
narcotic made from the white liquid in the poppy plant. It looks like a black or brown block of tar like substance.
Crack
a stimulant that is a dangerous, pure form of cocaine that reaches the brain in seconds after being smoked or injected.
Barbiturates
a drug that belongs to a family of sedative-hypnotic drugs, or drugs that induce sleepiness.
Narcotics
are specific drugs that are obtainable only by prescription and are used to relieve pain.
LSD-
a strong hallucinogen that causes severe distorted perceptions of sound and color.
Morphine
a narcotic that is used to relieve severe pain