Drug TypesDrug abuse is a dangerous public health problem, which have an effect upon almost each and every community and family in some way. Also it plays a major role in social problems like violence, drugged driving, stress and child abuse.It harms unborn children and destroys families. Also the abuse of drug can lead to crime, homelessness, missed work or problem with keeping a job. Nowadays, you will find lots of treatment and treatments centers for drug abuse. But it is always best to prevent drug abuse in the first place. Every year drug abuse result in millions of different dangerous illness or injuries among various people in the world. There are various types of drugs. These drugs can be categorized in many ways, uppers or downers, hard or soft, legal or illegal, most harmful or least harmful, addictive or non addictive. Below are the drug categorized based on the effect they achieve.
Depressants: These type of drugs reduce the activity of the central nervous system. The examples of these drugs include: Stimulants:These type of drugs increase the activity of the central nervous system, example of these includes: Hallucinogens:They modify perceptions of reality and may effect in hallucinations, examples of these types of drugs include following: |