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Analgesics are pain relievers and as such do not have a definitive cognitive or metabolic effect. This is a wide category and individual medications may act as depressants or stimulants (I’ve never heard of a halluncinogenic analgesic), but the overall class of analgesics is not inherently depressive or stimulatory.
