Topic 3.5 - Different Types Of Drugs.
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- Topic 3.5 - Different Types Of Drugs.
- Stimulants
- Stimulants affect the central nervous system, increasing brain activity.
- High doses of most stimulants can lead to nervousness, anxiety and paranoid psychosis which is when a person loses touch with reality and becomes paranoid.
- Topic 3.5 - Different Types Of Drugs.
- Caffeine, tobacco, anabolic steroids, 'poppers', ecstasy, crack and cocaine.
- Stimulants affect the central nervous system, increasing brain activity.
- Depressants
- Depressants reduce brain activity, relieve tension or promote relaxation
- Depressants
- The also reduce mental and physical functioning and self-control.
- Depressants
- Analgesics
- Painkillers
- Analgesics
- Analgesics
- Heroin, opium, pethidine and codeine.
- Painkillers
- Painkillers
- Analgesics reduce sensitivity to emotional and physical pain, giving a sense of warmth and comfort.
- Hallucinogens
- Cannabis, LSD, 'Magic' Mushrooms and ecstasy.
- Hallucinogens
- Hallucinogens
- They enhance a user's mood.
- They distort people's perceptions, giving people hallucinations, feelings of insight and of being disconnected from the world around the world around them or from themselves.
- They distort people's perceptions, giving people hallucinations, feelings of insight and of being disconnected from the world around the world around them or from themselves.
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