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New psychoactive substances: a review and updates

Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology, 2020
New psychoactive substances (NPS) are a heterogeneous group of substances. They are associated with a number of health and social harms on an individual and societal level.
Alex J Berry, Derek K. Tracy, David Wood
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New Psychoactive Substances: Health and Legal Challenges

Psychoactives
Drug abuse represents a significant public health problem with a growing tendency. As a way of circumventing the strict national and international control of psychoactive substances by regulatory agencies, there is a market release of new substances with
Daniel José Barbosa, Daniela Maia
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New psychoactive substances: Challenges [PDF]

Hospital Pharmacology, 2020
Introduction: The United Nation Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) defines "new psychoactive substances" (NPS) as substances for abuse that are not under the control of the 1961 Convention on Narcotic Drugs or the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic ...
Crnić Katarina B., Kovačević Mira N.
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Use of psychoactive substances among university students from 2019 to 2020: A systematic review

Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health
Psychoactive substances act on the central nervous system producing changes in mental processes, such as perception, consciousness, cognition or mood and emotions.
Gustavo Reis Sampaio, Gabriel Silva Lima, Suzana Braga de Souza, Denis de Melo Soares   +3 more
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The dilemma of new psychoactive substances: A growing threat

Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2023
New psychoactive substances (NPS) pose a major public threat and are a growing problem worldwide. They were designed to replace banned or controlled drugs while escaping quality control measures.
Hawraa Sameer Sajwani
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Editorial: Pharmacology of new psychoactive substances

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023
K. Lutfy, R. N. Pechnick, N. A. Darmani
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Advances in new psychoactive substances identification: the U.R.I.To.N. Consortium

Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry, 2017
Identification of new psychoactive substances (NPS) in biological and non-biological samples represents a hard challenge for forensic toxicologists. Their great chemical variety and the speed with which new NPS are synthesised and spread make stringent ...
Francesco Mari, Fabrizio Carta, Fabio Vaiano   +2 more
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Prevalence of new psychoactive substances addiction: a hospital-based cross-sectional study [PDF]

Ķazaķstannyṇ Klinikalyķ Medicinasy, 2020
Background: New psychoactive substances are a combined group of chemical substances developed in an attempt to circumvent control and restrictive measures for traditional drugs.
Mariya Prilutskaya, Oleg Yussopov, Nikolay Negay, Kuanysh Altynbekov, Makpal Tokayeva   +4 more
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Analytically confirmed presence of psychoactive substances, especially new psychoactive substances in a group of patients hospitalized with mental and behavioural disorders due to the use of psychoactive substances diagnosis

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2022
Objectives The study assessed the presence of new psychoactive substances (NPS) in comparison to “classic” drugs in the group of newly admitted patients with mental and behavioral disorders due to the use of psychoactive substances diagnosis (section F11–
Piotr Engelgardt, Maciej Krzyżanowski, Przemysław Piotrowski, Malgorzata Borkowska-Sztachańska, Agnieszka Wasilewska   +4 more
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International Legal Aspects of Control of Trafficking in New Psychoactive Substances

Евразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политика, 2022
Aim. To analyze relevant provisions of the main national and international regulatory legal acts in the field of monitoring and control of new potentially dangerous substances.Tasks.
V. P. Kirilenko, D. S. Molokovskii
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