A "smiley pill" is a street name for tablets of the illegal psychoactive drug MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy or molly. These pills are often imprinted with various logos, including smiley faces, as a form of branding by illicit manufacturers.
MDMA generally is sold as a tablet, which is taken orally. MDMA tablets are available in various colors and shapes and generally are imprinted with a logo. Popular logos include smiley faces, clover leaves, cartoon characters, and symbols associated with commercial brands such as Mitsubishi, Nike, and Mercedes.
In low to moderate doses, ecstasy can produce feelings of pleasure and well-being, increased sociability and closeness with others. Like all stimulant drugs, ecstasy can make users feel full of energy and confidence. Even at low doses, ecstasy can also have strong negative effects.
Class A drugs are treated as the most dangerous and include cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, LSD, magic mushrooms and crystal meth. Class B drugs include codeine, ketamine, cannabis and 'spice'.
Diazepam belongs to a group of medicines called benzodiazepines. It works by increasing the levels of a calming chemical in your brain. Depending on your health condition, this can make you feel drowsy, relieve anxiety, stop seizures or relax tense muscles.
It can come in powder or crystal form and is also the active ingredient expected to be found in ecstasy pills. MDMA is a stimulant drug that may increase feelings of empathy and is usually swallowed. MDMA is a Class A drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act (1971).
In the brain, cocaine elevates dopamine levels, resulting in a euphoric feeling that is distinctive from the high and pleasurable feelings produced by other drugs.
Joy powder is slang that could refer to the following drugs: Heroin. Cocaine. Marijuana. Morphine.
However, drugs like cocaine, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), methamphetamine, and phencyclidine (PCP) can sometimes have the opposite effect. They can cause hallucinations, fast heart rates, and other side effects that cause anxiety or worsen an anxiety condition.
Benzodiazepines most commonly used to treat anxiety disorders are clonazepam (Rivotril)*, alprazolam (Xanax) and lorazepam (Ativan). Also used are bromazepam (Lectopam), oxazepam (Serax), chlordiazepoxide (once marketed as Librium), clorazepate (Tranxene) and diazepam (Valium).
bliss, blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air. a state of extreme happiness. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion. synonyms: exaltation, rapture, raptus, transport.
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LSD or acid, is possibly the most well-known psychedelic drug. It alters awareness and perceptions and may also cause hallucinations. It is not chemically addictive but can cause some negative effects like anxiety and paranoia.
“Happy pills” — in particular the anxiolytic drugs Miltown and Valium and the antidepressant Prozac — have been spectacularly successful “products” over the last 5 decades, largely because they have widespread off label use. Miltown, launched in the 1950s, was the first “blockbuster” psychotropic drug in the US.
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One of the widely-reported side effects of SSRIs is 'blunting', where patients report feeling emotionally dull and no longer finding things as pleasurable as they used to. Between 40-60% of patients taking SSRIs are believed to experience this side effect.
Types of feel-good drugs
By far, alcohol is the most commonly abused substance in the United States.
The most widely used party drugs are:
Crystal meth releases more dopamine in the brain compared to any other drug. Dopamine is a brain neurotransmitter that serves a number of functions, including the feeling of pleasure. When crystal meth leads to a powerful surge of dopamine in the brain, people feel motivated to seek it out again and again.
MDMA (an abbreviation of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), also called “Molly” or “Ecstasy,” is a lab-made (synthetic) drug that has effects similar to stimulants like methamphetamine.
MDMA became a popular rave or club drug with younger people due to its reputation as a drug that can enhance sociability, empathy, and feelings of euphoria as well as its hallucinogenic properties.
Increased motor activity, alertness, heart rate, blood pressure, muscle tension, tremors, teeth clenching, nausea, sweating, euphoria, empathy, reduced inhibition, chills, blurred vision, confusion, anxiety, depression, paranoia, severe dehydration, sleep problems, and drug craving.