action: central nervous system depressant

This term refers both to the action of certain drugs and to the class of drug capable of producing functional slowing of central nervous activity.

Classes of drugs considered to be CNS depressants: barbiturates | benzodiazepines | opioids | sedative hypnotics

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• Frankenstein Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, and John Boles 1931

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