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A psychoactive drug or psychotropic substance is a chemical that alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness, or behaviour. Such drugs are often used for recreational and spiritual purposes, as well as in medicine, especially for treating neurological and psychological illnesses.1 Common psychoactive drugs
Note: This overview groups together drugs with different effects and modes of action. Several have properties of many categories.
- Psychedelics
- LSD
- Mescaline
- Psilocybin
- Cannabissee text Cannabis is a genus of dioecious, annual herbs that belong to the family Cannabaceae, which was formerly placed with the nettles in the order Urticales, but is now in the order Rosales. There is phylogenetic controversy as to whether the cultivat
- PCPPhencyclidine (also called PCP or Angel dust is a dissociative/ anaesthetic developed in the 1960s by Parke & Davis pharmaceutical company. Chemistry and pharmacology Chemically and pharmacologically it is very similar to ketamine, and in effects very sim
- MDMAThis article is about the synthetic drug. For more traditional meanings of the term, see ecstasy and religious ecstasy''. MDMA more commonly known today by the street name ecstasy is a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family whose primary effect ("Ecstasy")
- DMTDimethyltryptamine DMT is a white, crystalline solid and was first synthesised in 1931. It is found in numerous species of plants. South American shamans have been ingesting DMT in the form of Ayahuasca or snuffs for hundreds of years. DMT is a very power
- KetamineKetamine is a general dissociative anesthetic for human and veterinary use. Its hydrochloride salt is sold as KetanestŪ, KetasetŪ and KetalarŪ. Pharmacologically it is very similar to Dextromethorphan and phencyclidine (PCP). Ketamine was first used on Am
- Salvinorin A
- NarcoticThe term narcotic derived from the Greek word for stupor, originally referred to a variety of substances that induced sleep (such state is narcosis . legal context, narcotic refers to opium, opium derivatives, and their semisynthetic or totally synthetics
- OpiateThe term opiate refers to the alkaloids found in opium, an extract from the unripe seeds of the opium poppy Papaver somniferum L. It has also traditionally referred to natural and semi-synthetic derivatives of morphine. The term is often incorrectly useds
