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psychoactive

[sahy-koh-ak-tiv]

adjective

  1. of or relating to a substance having a profound or significant effect on mental processes.

    a psychoactive drug.



psychoactive

/ ˌɪəʊˈæɪ /

adjective

  1. capable of affecting mental activity

    a psychoactive drug

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of psychoactive1

First recorded in 1960–65; psycho- + active
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He said that in his 36 years on the job, drug use had changed from cannabis and heroin to psychoactive substances.

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Jake says he spent all day locked in his cell and began using spice, a psychoactive substance, which was sprayed onto sheets of paper and slid under the door.

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Prison staff had gathered intelligence suggesting he was selling psychoactive drugs to other inmates, and a "debt list" believed to show those who owed him money was found in his cell.

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In Newman’s real life, it was a psychoactive psilocybin mushroom that, like all of them, stains blue when bruised.

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In a snow-covered village on the northern outskirts of Moscow, Russia’s most famous mycologist, Mikhail Vishnevsky, poured me a cup of light psychoactive mushroom tea.

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