Difference between depressant stimulant and hallucinogen?

Answer 1

Stimulants: Drugs that speed up or excite the central nervous system and make you feel more alert, more energetic, help you stay awake for long periods of time, decrease your appetite and make you feel good. (ex. relaxed, euphoric) Examples: Caffeine, Tobacco, Cocaine Depressants: Drugs that slow down the functions of the central nervous system and make you less aware of the events around you. Examples: Alchohol, Opiales (Heroin) Hallucinogens: (Psycadelics) Drugs that distort the senses and one's awareness or perception of events. One might see or hear things that don't actually exist. Examples: Magic Mushrooms

Answer 2

they are different categories of drugs and a drug can fit into more than one category and these aren't the only categories. depressants are drugs that make you tired or drowsy and make you not want to engage in physical activity like weed, alcohol or heroine. Stimulants are drugs that make you energised and are often very hard or impossible to sleep on, such as meth, coke or any kind of "speed". Hallucinogens are sometimes referred to as psycadelics. These drugs confuse the neural pathways, altering your senses and changing your thought process and perception of all things. Many experience it as an entirely different realm of reality. LSD, mushrooms, peyote, DXM, DMT and salvia just to name a few.

Answer 3

Quite fundamentally, stimulants literally "stimulate" the central nervous system; causing stimulatory psychoactive effects & symptoms- increased heart rate, hypertension, increased blood pressure, alertness, insomnia, etc. Examples include cocaine, methamphetamine, amphetamine, methylphenidate (Ritalin), MDMA (ecstasy), & methcathinone. Other examples are caffeine; yohimbe; & ephedrine, but these drugs act via a different mechanism & do not cause as much euphoria (and abuse potential) as the later groups of drugs mentioned.

Conversely, depressant drugs quite literally "depress" the central nervous system. Peripheral effects that are oppositeof stimulatory include: lowered heart rate; lowered blood pressure; decreased breathing; etc. These sorts of drugs generally "depress" neurotransmitter activity, in that it causes more inhibitory effects resulting in anxiolytic properties, drowsiness, ataxia (discoordination), etc. Examples include: alcohol; benzodiazepines (Valium, Xanax, Klonopin); barbiturates (butalbital & phenobarbital); centrally acting muscle relaxants like carisoprodol (soma) or baclofen; and to a lesser degree opioid painkillers (heroin, morphine, codeine, hydrocodone/vicodin, oxycodone [percocet & oxycontin], methadone, buprenorphine/suboxone, etc).

Answer 4

Stimulants speed up brain activity whereas depressants slow down brain activity.

Answer 5

the duration of effect is considerably longer

Answer 6

they both work on the central nervous system. one making you feel druwsy and slow and the other making you tweaky awake and usually restless.