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Psychoactive drug was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
July 12, 2006	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
April 5, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
May 14, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
July 16, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
June 19, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted
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Psychotropic medicine?

We have one link Psychotropic medicine. To be redirected here?--Estopedist1 (talk) 13:22, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Psychoactive vs. psychotropic

Is it the case that all psychoactive drugs are psychotropic and vice versa? Psychotropic redirects here. User:Jonwilliamsl(talk|contribs) 17:32, 10 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

All psychotropic (subclass) substances are psychoactive (superclass), but not all psychoactive substances are psychotropic. The term "psychotropic" is generally used in medical settings. ElectronCompound (talk) 11:56, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Technically psychotropic drugs noticeably affect mood and/or cognition, and psychoactive drugs include any drug which crosses the blood-brain barrier, but most people use these two terms interchangeably. "Tropic" means changes, and "active" means cause activity within. The difference is subtle, and the implication is that psychotropic drugs are intended to improve mood or cognition, and this would be different from any psychoactive drug which might be considered more likely to stupefy or depress (i.e. alcohol). Thoric (talk) 19:33, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hallucinogen vs Pseudo-Hallucinogen

I'm afraid the definition of many substances as "hallucinogens" is incorrect. Only few drugs cause actual hallucinations, most are pseudo-hallucinations. 2003:CD:6724:B500:99A2:507E:38DC:3A9C (talk) 14:50, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lead image: Clarity and Colouring

I find the lead image to be somewhat blurry, and the white balance seems a bit too warm. The pure red text also seems a bit uncomfortable to look at.

I know it's really difficult to have someone photograph all these controlled substance in one shot (and a Google search revealed almost no other such image than this Wikipedian's photo), maybe we can just... photoshop the current image's colour a bit? 海盐沙冰 (talk) 21:30, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I recoloured the original, unannotated image and uploaded it [1] here. I might be annotating it with a stylus in an hour or two (just to make the image more humanly to look at). 海盐沙冰 (talk) 22:02, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Psychomodulation substances

The term psychomodulation is used in relationshit to this topic. Could it be added to the § Terminology section or something like that? ❏ Okterakt 🦊 UwU (talk) 08:42, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]