Psychoactive drugs ________________.

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Psychoactive drugs are drugs that are capable of influencing thinking, memory, or conscious experience. They can alter the user's mood, perception, and behavior by targeting the central nervous system. Examples of psychoactive drugs include alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and various illicit drugs. While some drugs can speed up activity in the central nervous system (e.g. cocaine), and others can slow it down (e.g. alcohol), the defining characteristic of psychoactive drugs is that they alter states of consciousness. Painkillers derived from the opium poppy (such as morphine and heroin) are one type of psychoactive drug, but not all psychoactive drugs are derived from opium.

Psychoactive Drugs ________________