Recreational drug use
Recreational drug use is the use of one or more psychoactive drugs to cause a change to consciousness, either for pleasure or for some other reason.[1] When a psychoactive drug enters a person's body, it causes (intoxication or) an intoxicating effect.[1] Recreational drugs can be:
- depressants (drugs that cause a feeling of relaxation and calmness, slowing down the central nervous system (CNS))
- stimulants (drugs that cause a feeling of energy and being awake, speeding up the CNS)
- hallucinogens (drugs that cause changes to senses such as hallucination).[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crocq, Marc-Antoine (December 2007). Thibaut, Florence (ed.). "Historical and cultural aspects of man's relationship with addictive drugs". Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience. 9 (4). Laboratoires Servier: 355–361. doi:10.31887/DCNS.2007.9.4/macrocq. ISSN 1958-5969. OCLC 62869913. PMC 3202501. PMID 18286796. S2CID 12682928.
- ↑ Lüscher, C; Ungless, MA (November 2006). Bosurgi, R (ed.). "The Mechanistic Classification of Addictive Drugs". PLOS Medicine. 3 (11). Public Library of Science: e437. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030437. ISSN 1549-1676. LCCN 2004212194. PMC 1635740. PMID 17105338. S2CID 12300815.