Timeline for Would a drug related question best belong on "Biology.SE", "Medical Sciences.SE" or "Chemistry.SE"?
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| Mar 3, 2021 at 21:54 | answer | added | Carey Gregory | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 12:25 | comment | added | terdon | @A.Kvåle you're talking about some random internet site. They can do whatever they like. If you want to ask about actual systems of categorization for recreational drugs that are used in the medical sciences, that's a whole different question. But the list you show is just the way that specific site chose to organize its information. | |
| Jan 15, 2020 at 11:59 | comment | added | A. Kvåle | @terdon I see what you're saying but it doesn't seem like that. It seems like they're claiming their list to be THE list of drug categories. Just look at the title; "The Seven Types of Drugs". Not "Our Pick for the Seven Types of Drugs (that are/make...)". And what even is the point of a some site index without a consistent categorization? If it's to alert parents, then they might as well just list a bunch of common and dangerous drugs and their associated traits that they can look out for. | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 18:44 | comment | added | Martin - マーチン | I strongly advise against asking on Chemistry. None of the categories mentioned in your sample can actually be related to structure or properties of (a) compound(s). Cannabis in itself is a mixture of plenty of substances, many having completely different properties. Questions about medicinal chemistry are on topic, as is pharmacology and toxicology. The tag 'drugs' does not refer to illicit substances alone, but all kinds of pharmaceuticals, too; and is most often used for synthesis/characterisation of specific substances. | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 9:55 | comment | added | terdon | @A.Kvåle one can come up with a dozen different ways of categorizing, all of which will be completely valid. You can categorize by effect, by biological pathway, by side effects, by addictiveness, by danger, by pleasure, by color... Anyway, that site isn't categorizing the drugs, it is categorizing its own pages of information. It has one important page for cannabis, so that gets its own section. It has grouped all the hallucinogens together, so they only get one entry. But it isn't categorizing the drugs themselves, you are looking at a site index, not a drug index. | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 8:32 | comment | added | A. Kvåle | Agreed, but you can still consistently categorize birds and fish. Do categorize them taxonomically, based on their genetic code, which would mean birds and fish exist in the same category (Animalia), or do you categorize based on the type of habitat they live in, a category that would transcend classes and kingdoms, as some birds, reptiles and mammals are aquatic. Sometimes, the type of habitat they live in is a defining feature of the taxonomic classification. Thing is, if you start mixing up these categorizations, it all becomes very confusing, which seems to have happened with drugs. | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 21:46 | comment | added | W.O. | There was a time, some years ago when I regularly took a sleep-aid (depressant), it also happened to be an anti-histamine (allergy med) and an anti-inflammatory (steroid). A bird is an animal, so is a fish, some birds swim, some fish fly - life is complicated sometimes. | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 21:28 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | @A.Kvåle Like DeNovo suggests, there are too many different ways to categorize something for it to be a good general question. We tend to make up these sorts of categories as we go because they are useful groups, but any one substance can be in numerous categories, and those categories need not even be hierarchically organized. | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 21:24 | comment | added | De Novo | That's a tricky question for any SE site. "How does one categorize this" is very broad. | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 21:19 | comment | added | A. Kvåle | @BryanKrause I'm not requesting a list necessarily, I'm requesting a better understanding of the different lists out there, and the different ways of listing, a.k.a. the different focuses in categorization being employed. | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 21:18 | answer | added | De Novo | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 21:17 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | The reason this particular site grouped drugs the way they did is because they are coming from the perspective of addiction. The groups have to do with that rather than pharmacology. | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 21:15 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | Psych & Neuro might be a fit, too, though I don't think the question itself is all that great - it's kind of requesting a list, and there is a lot of opinion in the answer. I'd dissuade you from posting at Bio.SE in part because I don't really see a biological frame to the question. Better questions might be "Why are opioids not considered stimulants?" or a similar question about cannabis. | |
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| Jan 13, 2020 at 20:23 | comment | added | A. Kvåle | @Rob Very good point, I didn't know of Medical Sciences.SE, but checking their tags, that seems like just as good of a fit as the two other sites. I will edit my question. | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 20:13 | comment | added | Rob | A.Kvåle, it's not just what are you asking but what kind of answer do you want. Medical Sciences.SE has a where in their help. | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 20:06 | comment | added | A. Kvåle | @FrédéricHamidi I see you point there, but my question is a bit more general than that. The site linked to is simply an example of the cloudiness around the topic, and my question seeks clarification for set topic. The linking to the site serves as reasoning for my confusion/lack of answers and also as proof of prior research. | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 19:58 | comment | added | Frédéric Hamidi | This site claims there to be X... Is the site notable? Are you looking for confirmation / infirmation of these claims? If both answers are yes, then you might want to check the rules on Skeptics -- your question may be a good fit there. | |
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