ATS Information Classification
Classification
Psychoactive drugs are commonly grouped into categories based on administrative control, psychoactive effects, and source of drug/method of manufacture. According to these classification systems, ATS are classified as psychotropic synthetic stimulants.
A legal classification system has been devised for by two U.N. Conventions, creating three main classifications of drugs:
- Psychoactive Effects
Drugs can be classified by the psychoactive effects they induce. Psychoactive substances fall into three main groups:
Drugs are often classified by the source of the drug as well as the method by which it is manufactur-ed. This classification method includes three main groups:
Broadly speaking, there are two major classifications of drugs, ‘synthetic drugs’ and ‘plant-based’ (also ‘botanical’ or ‘natural’) drugs. Although the term ‘synthetic drug’ is nowadays frequently equated with ‘ecstasy’ or ‘amphetamine-type stimulant’, it covers a much broader spectrum of man-made substances. The distinctive feature of synthetic drugs, as opposed to plant-based drugs is that they are synthesized in a chemical laboratory, usually from ‘off-the-shelf’ chemicals (so-called precursors or starting materials). Plant-based drugs, by contrast, are obtained by refining or processing plant material.
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