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CLASSIFICATION OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES - Jacques Botes.
Stabilis Treatment Centre regularly receives telephone calls enquiring with regards to different forms of chemical
substances. Generally chemical substances could be classified according to the effects on the Central Nervous
System (CNS). The CNS could either be stimulated, depressed or the working of the chemical substance can even
induce hallucinations. Below follows a brief summary of different chemical substances classified according to its
effects on the CNS:
Central Nervous System Depressants (CNSD – Downers) – Substances that depress the CNS:
 Alcohol
 Inhalants: Glue, Petrol, Thinners, Benzene, Huffing ect.
 Hypnotics and Sleeping Pills: Stillnox, Adco – Zolpidem, Sleep Easy ect.
 Painkillers /Analgesics: Grandpa, Syndol, Painstop, Beserol, Myprodol, Bennylin etc.
 Tranquillisers: Valium, Pax, Serepax, Ativan, Rohypnol
 Narcotics: Opium, Heroin, Morphine, Codeine, Pethidene, Methadone, Mandrax, Nayope
Central Nervous System (CNS) Stimulants (CNSS – Uppers) – Substances that excite, stimulate and speed up the
CNS:
 Cocaine, Crack and Cat
 Amphetamines and Methamphetamines, Ecstasy
 Ephedrine
 Appetite Suppressants
 Tobacco and Caffeine
 Marijuana (Also listed as a Hallucinogen)
Hallucinogens – Directly disrupts functioning of the brain and/ or induce hallucinations:
 LSD
 Malpitte
 Stinkblaar
 Cannabis / Marijuana (Dope, Joint, Ganja, Dagga, Grass, Boom, Weed, Zol, DP).
Any drug or chemical, whether legal or illicit, will affect the chemical construction of the person. Eventually
affecting the person’s mental and emotional wellness as a result is inevitable. Furthermore, our design is of such a
nature that over a period of time chemical and psychological dependence will develop. One should thus choose
and judge with great caution what chemicals you would allow to be “administered” into your biological system. It
is on the fact that chemical substance dependence might develop that drug dealers bargain that human beings will
keep them in business.
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