Psychoactive drug users want to achieve an alternate state of mind, typically to escape their reality. These drugs can be found in many foods, drinks, or prescription medications. What most people do not comprehend is that anything can become addictive after use, and it could be causing more harm to the body than realized.
Psychoactive drugs like cocaine, alcohol, or coffee act as an antagonist and affect the unconscious mind by blocking neurotransmitters in the central nervous system while others are agonist and act as if the drug is the neurotransmitter, therefore altering the effect of the mind’s consciousness. Using drugs in general is dangerous, but not necessarily life threatening, however the dangerous side of these drugs are the use of opioids, stimulants, depressants, and hallucinogens in high doses that will likely lead to an unconscious mind and body. Although drugs can be life threatening, it
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The effects of these drugs can dramatically change one’s personality to the point of unrecognizability. The most common reason for psychoactive drug use is for the rewarding system of pleasure; The “high” that everyone wants to achieve. After trying it a few times, one will notice they can injust more at one time because it seems normal. This is called building up a tolerance to the drug. When the body can handle more, so can the mind, theoretically. Except for this is pushing the body closer to addiction and before long there’s no going back without the awful withdrawal symptoms. Most people fail and relapse while trying to come clean. There are three main classifications of psychoactive drugs, hallucinogens, which produce hallucinations in the mind, otherwise known as a “trip”, stimulants, that increase the body and mind activity, and depressants, that slow the body and minds central nervous