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Describe Depressants drugs.

      

Describe Depressants drugs.

  

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Kavungya
These are drugs, which slow down bodily function e.g. alcohol, tranquilizers and opiates
a) Alcohol: slows down brain activity. As a result, there increased harmful and helpful tendencies as it affects judgment and inhibitions. Alcoholic can be:
- More aggressive or harmful
- Self-disclosing or sexual daring
- Slow in reactions at times during sleep
- Poor in skill performance
- Ill behaved
- Less inhibited
- Low doses relax the drinker by slowing down the sympathetic nervous system
b) Tranquilizers/Barbiturates: they tend to alter reality in our minds instead of allowing us to use our minds to alter the unpleasant reality in our lives. Long-term use can result in lack of coordination, memory loss, and impaired judgment. These are Nembutals and seconals. They affect the sympathetic nervous system by depressing its activities. The only difference is that they can cause death hence at times used as a medium of suicide.
c) Opiates: opium, morphine and heroine also depress neural function, thus the user experiences the following:
- Euphoria
- Induce sleep
- Relieves pain
- Breathing slows
- Develop lethargy
- They are highly addictive
Kavungya answered the question on May 8, 2019 at 08:15


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