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Designer benzodiazepines (DBZDs) represent a serious health concern and are increasingly reported in polydrug consumption-related fatalities. When new DBZDs are identified, very limited information is available on their pharmacodynamics.
Valeria Catalani +6 more
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Despite increasing reports, antidepressant (AD) misuse and dependence remain underestimated issues, possibly due to limited epidemiological and pharmacovigilance evidence.
Stefania Chiappini +5 more
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The use of psychoactive substances in Germany
Monitoring the use of psychoactive substances and substance-related problems in the population allows for the assessment of prevalence and associated health and social consequences.The data are derived from the Epidemiological Survey of Substance Abuse (ESA) 2021 (n = 9046, 18-64 years).
Christian, Rauschert +5 more
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Screening Unknown Novel Psychoactive Substances Using GC-MS Based Machine Learning [PDF]
In recent years, there is a large increase in structural diversity of novel psychoactive substances (NPS), exacerbating drug abuse issues as these variants evade classical detection methods such as spectral library matching.
Swee Liang, Wong +3 more
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Novel psychoactive substances (designer drugs): overview and pharmacology of modulators of monoamine signalling [PDF]
Novel psychoactive substances are newly used designer drugs ("internet drugs", "research chemicals", "legal highs") potentially posing similar health risks to classic illicit substances. Chemically, many novel psychoactive substances can be classified as
Liechti, Matthias E., Matthias Liechti
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Pharmacology of novel psychoactive substances [PDF]
This PhD work consists of an in vitro and in vivo part. In the in vivo part, we investigated the role of dopamine in the acute clinical effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, “ecstasy”) in healthy human subjects.
Rickli, Anna
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Recently, a range of prescription and over-the-counter drugs have been reportedly used as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), due to their potential for abuse resulting from their high dosage/idiosyncratic methods of self-administration.
Fabrizio Schifano +3 more
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Novel Psychoactive Substances and Behavioral Addictions [PDF]
Copyright © 2014 Giovanni Martinotti et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Giovanni Martinotti +3 more
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Head shops and new psychoactive substances: a public health perspective.
In 2010, Ireland found itself at the eye of an international storm as a network of head shops emerged selling new psychoactive substances (NPS) and Irish youth rapidly became the heaviest users of NPS in Europe.
Smyth, Bobby P
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Legal approaches to new psychoactive substances: first empirical findings.
BACKGROUND: Generic drug legislation, i.e., simultaneously banning groups of drugs, has been introduced worldwide to counteract the trade and use of emerging "new psychoactive substances" (NPSs) more effectively.
van Amsterdam, Jan +2 more
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