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New Psychoactive Substances: A Potential Threat to Developing Countries [PDF]
Addiction and Health, 2023 Background: New psychoactive substances (NPS) have become a global phenomenon, with over 134 countries and territories from all world regions reporting them. Since December 2021, governments, laboratories, and partner agencies have confirmed to the UNODC
Mehedi Hasan, Shahjahan Ali Sarker
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NEW PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES AS A CRIME OBJECT [PDF]
, 2017 A new psychoactive substance is defined as a new narcotic or psychotropic drug, in pure form or in preparation, that is not controlled by the United Nations drug conventions (1961, 1971), but which may pose a public health threat comparable to that posed
Slesars, Arnis, Jermacāne, Aija
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The Consumption of New Psychoactive Substances and Methamphetamine [PDF]
Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2018 The abuse of new psychoactive substances (NPS) and methamphetamine has severe adverse effects. Here we provide the first report of regional patterns in NPS and methamphetamine consumption in Germany, on the basis of epidemiologic data from six federal states (Bavaria, Hamburg, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, and Thuringia).Data were derived from
Elena Gomes, de Matos +4 more
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman +4 more
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New psychoactive substances abuse and its clinical consequences - the case report
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2019 Introduction: The meteoric rise of new psychoactive substances' use has been a public health problem for at least few years. Their presence was noticed by EU authorities around 2005.
Andrzej Kościuk +5 more
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Identification of three unexpected new psychoactive substances at an Australian drug checking service [PDF]
, 2023 Drug checking is a harm reduction measure which provides people with the opportunity to confirm the identity and purity of substances before consumption.
Jess L., Algar +4 more
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New Psychoactive Substances Consumption in Opioid-Use Disorder Patients
Biology, 2022 (1) Background: Since the beginning of the 21st century, the large number and wide chemical variety of new psychoactive substances (NPS) that enter the market every year has become a public health problem. Given the rapidity with which the drug market is
Maria Alías-Ferri +11 more
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Frequency and risk factors of the use of psychoactive substances among the young [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2008 Background/Aim. Socio-economic changes that occurred in the wake of dismemberment of former Yugoslavia resulted in the appearance of social pathology, one of which was the increase in the use of psychoactive substances.
Pavlović Zorana, Jakovljević Branko
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New Psychoactive Substances Intoxications and Fatalities during the COVID-19 Epidemic
Biology, 2023 In January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic in March 2020. Stringent measures decreased consumption of some drugs, moving the illicit market to
Alfredo Fabrizio Lo Faro +9 more
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A New Beginning: An Overview of New Psychoactive Substances [PDF]
Foresic Research & Criminology International Journal, 2017 New psychoactive substances are the newest danger trending on the drug market. Though they are defined as substances designed to replicate the effects of traditional illegal drugs such as cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamines and cannabis, it has been suggested that these mimics are extensively more potent than their counterparts. Beyond the limits of current
O'Hagan, A, Smith, C
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