Clinical Pharmacology: Advances and Applications, 2013 Michael Capriola Thomasville Medical Center, Thomasville, NC, USA Abstract: The abuse of synthetic cathinones, widely known as bath salts, has been increasing since the mid-2000s.
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Toxicology Reports, 2022 Cathinone is the psychostimulatory major active ingredient of khat (Catha edulis Forsk) and are often co-abused with alcohols and polydrugs. With the increased consumption of khat and cathinones on a global scale, efforts should be channelled into ...
Sharoen Yu Ming Lim +5 more
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Cathinone Use Disorder in the Context of Slam Practice: New Pharmacological and Clinical Challenges
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 Background“Slam” has emerged since 2008 as a new international phenomenon among men who have sex with men (MSM); it consists of the intravenous injection of drugs before or during planned sexual activity.
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Analysis of Cathinone Alkaloids in Khat by HPLC-Q-TOF In-source Fragmentation Multistage Mass Spectrometry [PDF]
Zhipu XuebaoKhat is a kind of common drug plant. Many experiments have shown that the content of cathinone norpseudoephedrine and norephedrine in some varieties of Khat are similar.
SHI Hong-fei1, XU Bo-peng1, QUAN Yang-ke2, XU Cheng-xin1, ZHOU Xiu-qi1
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Postmortem Distribution of Cathinone and Cathine in Human Biological Specimens in a Case of Death Associated with Khat Chewing [PDF]
Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences & Forensic Medicine, 2018 Chewing khat leaves has been associated with several adverse health effects, and there are very few case reports of cardiotoxicity, stroke and death resulting from this.
Ibraheem M. Attafi +5 more
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Metabolism of cathinone to (−)-norephedrine and (−)-norpseudoephedrine
Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 1986 Abstract S-(−)-Cathinone (S-(−)-α-aminopropiophenone) is the major active principle of khat leaves (Catha edulis), which are widely used in East Africa and the Arab peninsula as an amphetamine-like stimulant. After oral administration of synthesized cathinone (isomers, racemate), 22–52% was recovered in 24 h urine samples mainly as ...
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Experimental 1H, 13C and T1 NMR Studies of Graphene Oxide Interactions with 2-Fluorophenylacetic Acid as a Fluorinated Cathinone Model Supported by Molecular Modelling [PDF]
MoleculesCathinone and its synthetic derivatives are among the most popular drugs worldwide. However, the literature provides data on the medicinal and cytotoxic potential of some of these compounds.
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Cyclodextrin-Enabled Enantioselective Complexation Study of Cathinone Analogs
MoleculesThe characteristic alkaloid component of the leaves of the catnip shrub (Catha edulis) is cathinone, and its synthetic analogs form a major group of recreational drugs. Cathinone derivatives are chiral compounds. In the literature, several chiral methods
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Isolation, Characterization, and Stability Assessment of Pure Enantiomers of Cathinone Derivatives via Semi-Preparative HPLC-UV Using a Phenomenex Lux® 5 Column [PDF]
MoleculesIn addition to well-known traditional synthetic illicit drugs like cocaine, amphetamines, and heroin, an increasing number of new psychoactive substances (NPS) are appearing on the global drug market.
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The rising wave of cathinone use in people attending harm reduction facilities: a French repeated cross-sectional study (2019–2023) [PDF]
Addiction Science & Clinical PracticeBackground In Europe, cocaine use has recently been on the rise among people who use drugs (PWUD). In parallel, cathinones, another type of psychostimulant that were once associated within the unique context of chemsex, are now spreading to broader ...
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