Heroin is an example of an illegal depressant. Some solvents and gases, such as glue and aerosols, can act as dangerous depressants if inhaled. If used as a drug, they cause liver damage ...

Examples of depressants include sleeping pills, alcohol and opioids such as illegal drugs like heroin or legal ones like OxyContin, Vicodin or morphine. Sometimes medications such as ...

But it also showed big differences in how effective each drug is. The authors of the report, published in the Lancet, said it showed many more people could benefit from the drugs. There were 64.7 ...