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Drug Glossary

Understanding how alcoholism and drug abuse affects your brain and body is an important first step to a healthier and happier life. Learn more about the signs of addiction, side-effects, withdrawal symptoms, and best form of treatment for each specific substance.

Stimulants

Stimulants are legal and illegal drugs that excite the central nervous system by enhancing the effects of norepinephrine and dopamine — increasing alertness, energy, attention, and altering mood.

Depressants

Depressants are sedative drugs that alter how the central nervous system functions by slowing down normal brain activity — resulting in drowsiness, decreased inhibition, poor concentration, and disorientation.

Opioids

Opioids, also known as narcotics, are highly addictive legal and illegal drugs that interact with opioid receptors on nerve cells in the body and brain to relieve pain.

Hallucinogens

Hallucinogens are both natural and man-made drugs that affect the brain’s neural circuits and distort an individual’s perception of reality, causing sensations and images that seem real though they are not.

Cannabinoids

Cannabinoids are chemical compounds found in the cannabis plant that interact with the body’s endocannabinoid system, affecting various physiological processes. There are three main types of cannabinoids: phytocannabinoids, endocannabinoids, and synthetic cannabinoids.

Other Psychoactive Substances & Designer Drugs

2C Series

2C-B, 2C-I

Piperazines

BZP, TFMPP, mCPP

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