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• n  a drug that can produce mood changes and distorted perceptions

• mind-altering drug
• consciousness-altering drug
• psychoactive substance

News & Articles

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• Banning Psychedelic Drugs Hurts Research, Scientists Say
  Restricting the use of psychoactive drugs in research represents the most serious case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Copernicus and Galileo, some scientists say.
  June 12, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
• Down the Wrong Path: Book Details Psychiatry's Lack of Objective Science
  Psychiatry -- which uses well-intentioned coercion, unscientific diagnoses and psychoactive drugs that do as much harm as good -- is a science that is off course, according to a new book co-written by Tomi Gomory, an associate professor in the Florida State University College of Social Work.
  June 12, 2013 - Newswise