Each type of drug comes with a description and source, its common names, abuse potential, and other added information. You can chose from the list below or scroll down to read on. Methamphetamines have limited medical use and are frequently abused. Euphoria, sedation, temporal distortion, sexual arousal.
Cocaine is unique among abused substances in that acute tolerance develops.
Hallucinations, hypertension, paranoid psychoses, agitation, combativeness, seizures, cardio-pulmonary arrest, death. Natural opiates - morphine, codeine. Synthetic opiates - methodone, propoxyphene, meperidine. The synthetic opioids are structurally unrelated to the natural opioids, but appear to bind to the endorphin and enkephalin receptors.