Barbiturates are to depressants as LSD is to what?
Group of answer choices
Psychoacitves
Narcotics
Inhalants
Stimulants
The correct answer and explanation is:
The correct answer is Psychoactives.
Barbiturates are classified as depressants, meaning they slow down the activity of the central nervous system (CNS). Similarly, LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide), which is a hallucinogenic drug, belongs to the category of psychoactive substances, which affect the mind and emotions by altering perception, mood, and consciousness.
Psychoactive drugs include a wide range of substances that act on the CNS to produce changes in the brain and mental state. These can include hallucinogens, stimulants, and depressants, among other categories. LSD is specifically known as a hallucinogen because it significantly alters sensory perceptions, leading to visual and auditory hallucinations and changes in the perception of time and space.
In comparison to barbiturates, which cause sedation and relaxation, LSD affects the brain in a very different way. It does not slow down the CNS but rather stimulates certain areas of the brain, leading to a heightened sense of awareness, altered sensory experiences, and sometimes profound changes in thought and perception. While both barbiturates and LSD can be classified as psychoactive substances, they affect the brain in fundamentally different ways: barbiturates are depressants, whereas LSD is a hallucinogen and often classified within the broader category of psychoactive substances.
In conclusion, just as barbiturates are depressants and affect CNS functioning by slowing it down, LSD is categorized as a psychoactive substance, specifically a hallucinogen, which alters consciousness in a different manner.