Here is a list of various types of psychoactive substances.
- Anxiogenics - causes anxiety
- Anxiolytics - reduce anxiety
- Deliriants - induce delirium
- Dissociatives - distort perceptions and produce feelings of detachment from the environment and self
- Empathogens or Entactogens - produce empathy or sympathy
- Entheogens - induce feelings of inspiration, often in a spiritual manner
- Eugeroics - improves wakefulness and alertness
- Euphorigenics - induce euphoria
- Hallucinogens - cause hallucinations, perception anomalies, etc.
- Hypnotics, Soporifics, or Sedatives - induce sleep
- Nootropics - improve one or more aspects of mental function
- Oneirogen - produce and enhance dreams when sleeping
- Orexigenics - increase appetite
- Psychedelics - alter cognition and perception
- Psychoanaleptics - produce arousing effects
- Serenics - reduce aggression
- Stimulants - improve and/or increase mental and/or physical functions