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Fatalities Involving Khat in Jazan, Saudi Arabia, 2018 to 2021
Toxics, 2023 Interpreting fatalities involving khat is challenging due to a lack of data on cathinone and cathine reference concentrations in postmortem tissues. This study investigated the autopsy findings and toxicological results of fatalities involving khat in ...
Ghassan Shaikhain +11 more
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Stability of Synthetic Cathinones in Blood [PDF]
Journal of Analytical Toxicology, 2017 The synthetic cathinones are powerful psychostimulants that have been associated with impairment, intoxication and fatal overdose. Forensic laboratories must be able to identify these new drugs as part of antemortem and postmortem toxicology investigations.
Lindsay, Glicksberg, Sarah, Kerrigan
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Intended and unintended use of cathinone mixtures [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction: Cathinones are one of the most popular categories of new psychoactive substances (NPS) consumed. Cathinones have different pharmacological activities and receptor selectivity for monoamine transporters based on their chemical structures ...
John Martin Corkery +11 more
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Mechanism of action of cathinone: The active ingredient of Khat ( Catha Edulis [PDF]
, 2009 Objective: To review the current understanding of the mechanism of action of cathinone, the active ingredient of khat.Data source: Published experimental studies on the nature and action and effect of cathinone on the central nervous system both in ...
Patel, NB
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Cathinone Neurotoxicity (“The “3Ms”) [PDF]
Current Neuropharmacology, 2015 Synthetic cathinones are designer drugs of the phenethylamine class, structurally and pharmacologically similar to amphetamine, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), cathinone and other related substances. New analogues, legal at least, until formally banned (a time consuming process), are introduced almost daily The United Nations estimates nearly
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Extended Stability Evaluation of Selected Cathinones
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2020 Understanding the stability of drugs in a forensic toxicology setting is critical for the evaluation of drug concentrations. Synthetic cathinones are new psychoactive substances structurally derived from cathinone, the psychoactive component of Catha ...
Heather L. Ciallella +3 more
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Pharmacology and Toxicology of Amphetamine-Type Stimulants
Future Pharmacology, 2023 Amphetamine-type stimulants are drugs chemically related to the natural compounds ephedrine and cathinone [...]
João Paulo Capela, Vera Marisa Costa
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Synthetic Cathinones (“Bath Salts”) [PDF]
The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2014 Synthetic cathinones are popularly referred to in the media as "bath salts." Through the direct and indirect activation of the sympathetic nervous system, smoking, snorting, or injecting synthetic cathinones can result in tachycardia, hypertension, hyperthermia, myocardial infarction, and death.The chemical structures and names of bath salts identified
Matthew L, Banks +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 The utility of classical drugs used to treat psychiatric disorders (e.g., antidepressants, anxiolytics) is often limited by issues of lack of efficacy, delayed onset of action or side effects.
Raúl López-Arnau +14 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Catha edulis (Vahl) Endl., known as Catha edulis or Khat is a traditional and regional plant for chewing, smoking and drinking, that has posed a worldwide public health problem due to its recent emerging abused consumption. In the face of the massive use
Shuang Ye, Jin Hu, Zilong Liu, Man Liang
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