"Don't say, Just say no!"
(Peirce)

For many years teenagers and adults have been abusing psychoactive substances. Many lives have been ruined and lost to this psychic and mental problem. This is a serious problem that many people don't know about or are saying will never happen to their family. The psychoactive substances that are being abused fall into three categories, depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens.

A psychoactive substance is any substance that people take to change either the way they feel, think, or behave. This includes alcohol and tobacco as well as natural and manufactured drugs. People have taken psychoactive drugs for curative, religious, and recreational purposes for hundreds of years. At the end of the last century, however, due to advances in the field of chemistry and pharmacology, stronger and more highly addictive substances were synthesized that are depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens.

Depressant drugs are sedatives that act......

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Title: Drugs
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