Larger or improperly used doses of depressant drugs can cause confusion, lack of coordination, and shaking. Someone who takes them may have slurred speech and an inability to concentrate, and he or she may fall asleep at work or school.
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Depressants are psychoactive drugs which temporarily diminish the function or activity of a specific part of the body or mind. Examples of these kinds of...
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Discusses the actions and effects of depressant drugs, including overdose, addiction and recovery. This isn't meant to alarm people who take depressant drugs for long-standing physical or emotional problems. Sometimes all that stands between health and disease are prescription medications, and for some people...
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Drugs of Abuse Synthetic compounds available legally and illegally; Drugs that are closely related to the male sex hormone, testosterone; Moderate potential for abuse, particularly among young males Alcohol is a depressant that decreases the responses of the central nervous system.
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New generation anti-depressant drugs are little more effective than placebos. The results showed almost no added benefit in those taking anti-depressant drugs compared to those taking placebo. Those patients with severe depression showed a little more improvement that those with mild or moderate depression.
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Jun 9, 2006 Drugs, both legal and illegal, are categorized by three different types based on the effect each has on the body and the mind.
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Making up a second class of medically useful drugs that are also widely abused, the depressants act as sedatives on the central nervous system (CNS).
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Short fact sheet on the legal and illegal stimulants, their uses and adverse effects. Stimulants is a name given to several groups of drugs that tend to increase alertness and physical activity. The groups include pharmaceuticals such as amphetamines and the street drugs commonly called "uppers" or "speed," and cocaine.
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Concerns have been raised about possible harm from antidepressants which might affect both mother and child. Mothers-to-be and their health care providers often look for other choices Control subjects received an olive oil derived placebo. At 6 and Two thirds of the women consuming the PUFAs showed significant improvement,
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Of the 1.8 million annual admissions to treatment for abuse of alcohol and drugs in facilities that report to individual State administrative data systems, Alcohol is the most common legal depressant. Other depressants that are legal are often prescribed medications used to induce sleep, relieve stress,
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