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   3.0 Drug Classification A drug can be categorised based on the active ingredient,  chemical type or how it is used to treat a specific condition. Each drug is divided into one or more drug classes. A drug's activity can make another medicine less effective. They may equally alter how the medicine is absorbed or used by your body. An interaction that affects one medicine will likely affect others in the same class when categorised by mechanism of action (FDA 2019). Physicians have long known that different medications have varying effects on different persons. Drugs can, however, be grouped or categorised based on common symptomatologies or effects. These long-standing, medically accepted truths underpin the categorizing procedure. Stimulants, Depressants, Cannabinoids, Psychedelics, Opioids, Dissociatives, and Empathogens are the seven different types of drugs. Each of these kinds of drugs has the potential to impact on a person's central nervous system and impair their