What are drug interactions? When a person takes a drug not only does the drug affect them, but they affect the drug. The duration of a drug’s effect, its ‘pharmacodynamics’, is related to changes in its concentration in the body…
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Drug abuse or misuse
The terms abuse and misuse imply that the drug use being referred to is harmful or done in a potentially harmful way. These terms often refer to use that is dependent or part of a problematic behaviour. Those who believe…
Drug
What is a drug? “A term of varied usage. In medicine, it refers to any substance with the potential to prevent or cure disease or enhance physical or mental welfare, and in pharmacology to any chemical agent that alters the…
Driving
What are the effects of drugs on driving? Many drugs have an effect on driving. Some, such as alcohol and cannabis, can slow reaction times, reduce the ability to concentrate and distort the judgement of time and distance. Others, such as cocaine,…
DPT
What is DPT? DPT (N,N-dipropyltryptamine) is very rare in the UK. Its effects are as strong as those of DMT and is used in a similar manner – sniffed, smoked or snorted. Dose depends on how you are taking it…
DOM
What is DOM? DOM (2,5-Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine) is a hallucinogen and substituted amphetamine of the phenethylamine class which appeared in the mid 1967s with the street name STP. STP stands for Serenity, Tranquillity and Peace. Like more well known hallucinogens, such as…
DMT
Ayahuasca (brewed drink), Dimethyltriptamine, dimitri, spirit molecule What is DMT? DMT (chemical name dimethyltriptamine) is a hallucinogenic drug which is similar to LSD though its effects are more powerful. Ayahuasca Ayahuasca is a psychedelic tea brewed from parts of the…
Diconal
Diconal is the brand name of an opiate painkiller, dipipanone hydrochloride. It is a pink tablet which is sometimes prepared for injection by chronic users of heroin and similar drugs. Diconal tablets contain some ingredients (including the anti-nausea drug cyclizine)…
Detoxification
What is detoxification? Detoxification or detox describes the way in which a drug such as heroin is eliminated from the drug user’s body, often with the help of a doctor and/ or specialist drug worker. This is often a gradual…
Depressants
What are depressant drugs? Alcohol, heroin and tranquillisers are depressants and sometimes called ‘downers’. Large quantities make people feel sleepy. Very large doses can lead to fatal overdose as the vital systems of the body, like breathing, are slowed to…