Psychostimulants: Difference between revisions

Nav

← Older edit Newer edit →

VisualWikitext

Revision as of 10:52, 17 May 2026 view source MDElliottMD (talk \| contribs) Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators 5,672 edits Replace stub with renamed-from-Stimulants prose ← Older edit		Revision as of 10:53, 17 May 2026 view source MDElliottMD (talk \| contribs) Bureaucrats, Interface administrators, Administrators 5,672 edits No edit summary Tag: 2017 source edit Newer edit →
Line 1:		Line 1:
	The psychostimulants are a class of medicines ~~and other substances~~ that increase activity in the nervous system, producing wakefulness, alertness, and a sense of energy. They range from the mild psychostimulants of everyday life, such as caffeine, to powerful medicines used for attention disorders and narcolepsy, and to potent substances of misuse. Their history runs through exploration and commerce, and it returns repeatedly to a single difficulty: the properties that make a psychostimulant useful are also the properties that make it liable to misuse.		The psychostimulants are a class of medicines that increase activity in the nervous system, producing wakefulness, alertness, and a sense of energy. They range from the mild psychostimulants of everyday life, such as caffeine, to powerful medicines used for attention disorders and narcolepsy, and to potent substances of misuse. Their history runs through exploration and commerce, and it returns repeatedly to a single difficulty: the properties that make a psychostimulant useful are also the properties that make it liable to misuse.

	== Coca and the isolation of cocaine ==		== Coca and the isolation of cocaine ==

MDElliottMD (talk | contribs)