psychotropic
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1. psychotropic - Noun
2. psychotropic - Adjective
Meaning
affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes
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psychoactive drugs
A level of about 1% THC is considered the threshold for cannabis to have a psychotropic effect, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
Assuming it happens (it won’t because behaviour is not a disease) we won’t be treating schizophrenia with psychotropic medication, let me tell you that, right off the bat.
Police also seized harder drugs, including 542,455 kilograms of cocaine, 7,196 kilograms of heroin, and 1,407,451 psychotropic tablets, including 974,983 ecstasy tablets imported from Europe.
Psychotropic agents Other psychotropic analgesic agents include ketamine (an NMDA receptor antagonist), clonidine and other α 2 -adrenoreceptor agonists, and mexiletine and other local anaesthetic analogues.
Potentiation of GABA A receptor activity may underlie the anxiolytic effects of kava, while elevation of dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens likely underlie the moderately psychotropic effects the plant can produce.