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is depreesants classified according to the degree they decrease cns activity
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Where is depressants classified to?
curing depression
Is alcohol classified as a nerve depressants?
Alcohol is a Central Nervous System (CNS) depressant. It is also a neurotoxin.
Is barbiturate a class of drugs or a drug by itself?
No barbituates and benzodiazapines along with alcohol are classified as Depressants. The reason they are called depressants is because they depress or slow down your heart etc.Although both are depressants, they each have their own class as a CNS Depressant. Barbiturates have largely been replaced by benzodiazapines.
Why is alcohol classified as a depressent?
Because it is one. Depressants are drugs that slow the body's responses, like breathing and thinking and reflexes.
Why is marijuana a depressant drug?
It isn't. According to the DEA cannabis is classified separately from depressants and stimulants, most likely because the effects of cannabis fit in to both categories.
Would antibiotics be classified as depressants?
No An antibiotic is a medication used to fight germs or bacteria that cause infection. An anti-depressant is a medication that lifts mood disorders.
What group of drugs does alcohol come from?
alcohol is under the category of depressants
When you take depressants does it make you more depressed?
You don't take depressants. You take anti-depressants, which counters being depressed.
Depressants are drugs that are used to fight depression?
no, that would be ANTI-depressants....
Which part of the body do depressants affect?
Depressants slow (or depress) the functioning of the entire body.
What is true about depressants?
Depressants slow (or depress) the actions of the lungs, heart, and other organs.
What groups of drugs have the opposite effect on the brain hallucinogens and stimulants opiates and sedatives stimulants and depressants depressants and opiates Why?
Stimulants and depressants have opposite effects on the brain. Stimulants activate the central nervous system, while depressants (as their name implies) depress it.
