Stimulants

Stimulants Stimulants are drugs that tend to increase alertness and physical activity. Some widely known Stimulants are Amphetamines, Cocaine, and street drugs commonly called Speed. The more widely abused stimulants are amphetamines and cocaine. Cocaine has limited commercial use and its sale and possession are strictly controlled. Amphetamines are sometimes prescribed by physicians, and their availability makes them number one pick for misuse. Used properly, amphetamines increase alertness and physical ability. They are often prescribed to reverse the effects of narcolepsy, a rare disorder marked by episodes of uncontrollable sleep, and to help children with minimal brain dysfunction. Amphetamines increase the heart and respiration rates, increase blood pressure, dilate the pupils of the eyes, and decrease appetite. Other side effects include anxiety, blurred vision, sleeplessness, and dizziness. Abuse of amphetamines can cause irregular heartbeat and even physical collapse. A common form of abuse of amphetamines is by people who use them to counter the effects of sleeping pills that were taken the night before. This so called roller coaster effect hurts the body. Even though amphetamine users may feel a brief boost in self-confidence and power, the abuse of the drug can lead to delusions, hallucinations, and a stimulants, amphetamines, drugs, physical, increase, effects, cocaine, using, people, often, look-alike, feeling, even, drug, abuse, widely, users, taken, stronger, stop, sleep, prescribed, physicians, person, one, number, long, experience, effect, cause, called, batch, alertness, yellowish, writing