What are the effects of depressants and hallucinogens on behavior?

Depressants induce sleep, relieve anxiety, and treat seizure disorder's They are extremely addictive and overdosing is terribly easy. Some of the effects of depressants include sleepiness ans deep sleep, slurred speech, poor coordination and falling, poor thought processes and comprehension memory and judgment difficulty mood swings, involuntary jerking of the eye's, constricted pupils, slowed breathing rate, addiction, death if combined with alcohol, possible overdose leading to death. Due to there relaxing property's depressant abusers can forget how much they have taken and die as a result of overdose.


Hallucinogens can cause a persons vision such as light, color, and shapes to be altered, and imaginary objects appear walls "melt". users can feel like they are floating, being pressed down, or moving in slow motion. Users can focus on tiny objects for hours and loose track of time. Users can be moody or jumpy, thoughts jump wildly users body's can feel as if changing shape or that they don't even exist, dilated pupils, heavy perspiration body odor, "goose bumps", nausea, muscular weakness, trembling and poor coordination. Hallucinogens affect body temperature heart rate, blood pressure and can cause seizures. More effects include auditory and visual hallucinations, slurred speech, loss of coordination, blank stare; rapidly jerking eye's, sense of indestructibility, lack of pain, extreme anxiety; paranoia, hostility; violence to self and others, coma, loss of fine motor skills, seizures and convulsions, cardiac problems, permanent memory loss, mood disorders, disrupted hormone levels; limited growth.


Depressants and hallucinogens are dangerous and deadly when abused, the only time they should be used is under the direction of a doctor.

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