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Essay On Stimulants And Depressants

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Nearly 4.6 million ER visits in the United States were related in some way to drugs in 2009. Drug abuse not only affects individuals, but also can have far-reaching consequences that affect family, employment, personal health, and society as a whole. Drugs is a medicine or any other substance that has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body. Drugs are used to treat ourselves when we get sick. Drugs abuse is the habitual taking of addictive or illegal drugs. There are different kinds of drug that have a different effect when ingested in the body.
Those drugs that can harm the body and there are many kinds, but I will be talking about only two, which is Stimulants and Depressants. Stimulants are a substance that raises levels of physiological or nervous activity in the body. Stimulants do not necessarily mean they are bad, but you can become addicted to it easily and some example are caffeine, nicotine, cocaine, amphetamines, and methamphetamines. Some of these are in the food we eat like cafe and the others …show more content…

They enhance certain chemicals in the brain, these chemicals cause increases in blood pressure, alertness, attention, heart rate, energy, and respiration. Stimulants are a class of drugs that consists of illegal drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA (ecstasy), as well as legal drugs such as nicotine, caffeine and prescription medications such as Ritalin and Adderall. These drugs increase alertness, energy and attention and boost mood. People usually use stimulants to lose weight without trying, meet a deadline at work or school without losing focus or catching any shut-eye. While stimulants used to be prescribed for a number of health conditions, their adverse effects have limited their legal use to a few disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy. Stimulants can be injected or smoked or swallowed for longer lasting but less intense

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