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L'Absinthe, an 1876 portrait by Edgar Degas. Recreational drug use is the use of one or more psychoactive drugs to induce an altered state of consciousness, either for pleasure or for some other casual purpose or pastime. [ 1] When a psychoactive drug enters the user's body, it induces an intoxicating effect. [ 1]
Polysubstance use or multisubstance use is the use of combinations of psychoactive substances with both legal and illegal substances. This page lists polysubstance combinations that are entheogenic, recreational, or off-label indicated use of pharmaceuticals. For example, the over-the-counter motion sickness combination drug dimenhydrinate ( 8 ...
Methamphetamine. Methamphetamine[ note 1] (contracted from N-methylamphetamine) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug and less commonly as a second-line treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obesity. [ 23] Methamphetamine was discovered in 1893 and exists as two ...
Designer drugs are structural or functional analogues of controlled substances that are designed to mimic the pharmacological effects of the parent drug while avoiding detection or classification as illegal. Many of the older designer drugs (research chemicals) are structural analogues of psychoactive tryptamines or phenethylamines but there ...
UN World Drug Report 2016. In Peru, coca-bush cultivation jumped 44% between 2000 and 2011. While cultivation fell 31% between 2011 and 2014 (back to 2000 levels), it still accounts for 32% of ...
Illegal drug trade in the Philippines. The prevalence of illegal drug use in the Philippines is lower than the global average, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). [ 1] President Rodrigo Duterte has claimed that the country could become a "narco-state". Two of the most used and valuable illegal drugs in the country ...
Synthetic Cannabinoids are illegal in New Zealand, it is classified as a Class A controlled drug. [197] The New Zealand Parliament passed a law in July 2013 banning the sale of legal highs in dairies and supermarkets, but allowing some "low risk" drugs to continue to be sold through speciality licensed shops. [ 198 ]
Chemically, PCP is a member of the arylcyclohexylamine class, and pharmacologically, it is a dissociative anesthetic. [ 5][ 10][ 11] PCP works primarily as an NMDA receptor antagonist. [ 10] PCP is most commonly used in the United States. [ 12] While usage peaked in the US in the 1970s, [ 13] between 2005 and 2011 an increase in visits to ...