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New psychoactive substances in Poland. The analysis of policy responses and its effects

Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, 2017
Introduction : The aim of this article is to analyse the process of creation and implementation of policy on new psychoactive substances (NPS) in Poland in the context of definitional and legal issues, social and market response, implementation of ...
Michał Bujalski, Katarzyna Dąbrowska, Łukasz Wieczorek   +2 more
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New Psychoactive Substances [PDF]

, 2017
The final report of the NPS-t study presents the results of a survey among over 3.000 NPS users from 6 countries. Results include patterns of use, user profiles, procurement, market dynamics, and prevention. This report highlights the variety in types of NPS users and across countries.
Benschop, A., Bujalski, M., Dabrowska, K., Demetrovics, Z., Egger, D., Felinczi, K., Henriques, S., Kalo, Z., Kamphausen, G., Korf, D.J., Nabben, T., Silva, J.P., van Hout, M.C., Werse, B., Wells, J., Wieczorek, L., Wouters, M.   +16 more
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Molecular Insights on New Psychoactive Substances (NPSs)

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022
Currently, more than 1000 molecules have been classified as New Psychoactive Substances (NPSs), and it is reported that, every year, this number increases with new classes of compounds and/or newer generations of NPS families [...]
Busardò, Francesco Paolo, Pichini, Simona   +1 more
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New psychoactive substances: factsheet

, 2015
This factsheet has been produced in response to requests from parents and those working with young people for information on 'new psychoactive substances' (NPS).
Public Health Agency
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The 'new psychoactive substances' [PDF]

, 2020
One of the worst revolutions in illicit drug misuse took place with the development of synthetic drugs. These are drugs that are created using man-made chemicals rather than natural ingredients. Such drugs are not a new phenomenon and have been around since the 1960s when d-lysergic acid (LSD) became popular. This was followed by the growing popularity
Sammut, Godwin
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Voltammetric Analysis of New Psychoactive Substances

Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences & Forensic Medicine, 2021
New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are synthetic drugs that create similar effects as various narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Different NPS such as mephedrone, synthacaine, synthetic cannabinoids, etc. are available today which are sold across
Ketan Patil, Astha Pandey
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Scientific, Methodological and Organizational Approaches to Conducting Pre-clinical and Expert studies of Substances with Psychoactive Properties

Разработка и регистрация лекарственных средств, 2023
Introduction. Studying the psychoactive properties of substances is an important task for regulating their circulation. It is relevant both for new psychoactive substances (NPS) that are in illegal circulation and for drugs entering the pharmaceutical ...
T. L. Malkova, P. S. Mashchenko, A. I. Andreev, D. Yu. Apushkin, E. V. Vikhareva   +4 more
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Prevalence of Licit and Illicit Drugs Use during Pregnancy in Mexican Women

Pharmaceuticals, 2022
For the first time, the present study employed hair testing to investigate the prevalence of classical drugs of abuse and new psychoactive substances use during gestation in a cohort of 300 Mexican pregnant women.
Larissa-María Gómez-Ruiz, Emilia Marchei, Maria Concetta Rotolo, Pietro Brunetti, Giulio Mannocchi, Aracely Acosta-López, Ruth-Yesica Ramos-Gutiérrez, Mary-Buhya Varela-Busaka, Simona Pichini, Oscar Garcia-Algar   +9 more
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New Psychoactive Substances

Ugeskrift for Læger
Abstract Over the last two decades, we have witnessed a major transformation of the illicit drug market induced by a rapid increase in appearance and use of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) with chemical structures or pharmacological profiles that are similar to traditional drugs of abuse.
Katarzyna Kuczyńska, Jolanta B. Zawilska   +1 more
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Computer-Aided Classification of New Psychoactive Substances

Journal of Chemistry, 2021
The appearance on the free market of synthetic cannabinoids raised the researchers’ interest in establishing their molecular similarity by QSAR analysis. A rigorous criterion for classifying drugs is their chemical structure.
Alina Bărbulescu, Lucica Barbeș, Cristian-Ştefan Dumitriu   +2 more
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