Recreational drug use
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The Smokers, a 1636 portrait by Adriaen Brouwer, which shows recreational use of nicotine from tobacco.
Recreational drug use is the use of one or more psychoactive drugs to cause a change to consciousness, either for pleasure or for some other reason.[1] When a psychoactive drug enters a person's body, it causes (intoxication or) an intoxicating effect.[1] Recreational drugs can be:
- depressants (drugs that cause a feeling of relaxation and calmness, slowing down the central nervous system (CNS))
- stimulants (drugs that cause a feeling of energy and being awake, speeding up the CNS)
- hallucinogens (drugs that cause changes to senses such as hallucination).[2]
Recreational Drug Use Media
Drinking Man and an Old Smoking Man, an 18th-century portrait by anonymous author
L'Absinthe, an 1876 portrait by Edgar Degas
Radar plot of 20 widely used recreational drugs by dependence likelihood and physical and social harms
Chart of drug dependence potential and relationship between use and lethal dose
Chart of relative harmfulness of some psychoactive substances
A laneway in Darlinghurst, Sydney with a blue light to prevent intravenous drug use. 2026.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Historical and cultural aspects of man's relationship with addictive drugs. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience 9 (4) (December 2007)Laboratoires Servier. p. 355–361. doi:10.31887/DCNS.2007.9.4/macrocq. OCLC 62869913.
- ↑ The Mechanistic Classification of Addictive Drugs. PLOS Medicine 3 (11) (November 2006)Public Library of Science. p. e437. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030437.
