Showing posts with label mephedrone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mephedrone. Show all posts
Sunday, July 14, 2013

MDPV Turns Lab Rats Into "Window Lickers"

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Popular bath salt drug shown to be highly addictive. Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in La Jolla, California, appear...
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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Popular Synthetics: The Class of 2013

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Navigating the new alphabet of intoxication. You don’t have to be a molecular chemist to know which of today’s recreational drugs are s...
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Thursday, June 6, 2013

What We Talk About When We Talk About Drugs

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Some number crunching at bluelight.ru. A fantastic set of interactive graphics tracking conversational trends in drugs at the chat boa...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Popular “Bath Salt” Hooks Lab Rats

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Mephedrone shows addictive properties in animal models. Cathinones, like methedrine and other stimulants, are primarily dopamine-active...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Synthetic Drugs: Collected Posts

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Catching up with bath salts and spice. The Low Down on the New Highs: Not all bath salts are alike. “You’re 16 hours into your 24-hour...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The New Highs: Are Bath Salts Addictive?

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What we know and don’t know about synthetic speed. Part II. Call bath salts a new trend, if you insist. Do they cause psychosis? Are th...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

The Low Down on the New Highs

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Not all bath salts are alike. “You’re 16 hours into your 24-hour shift on the medic unit, and you find yourself responding to an “unknown ...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

“Bath Salts” and Ecstasy Implicated in Kidney Injuries

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“A potentially life-threatening situation.” Earlier this month, state officials became alarmed by a cluster of puzzling health problems th...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Drug Czar “Deeply Concerned” About Synthetic Stimulants

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“Bath salts” come under federal scrutiny. The Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy issued a warning about the new synt...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Khat to the Chase

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Of mephedrone, bath salts, and impaired driving.  Automobile accidents are the ninth leading cause of death worlwide, according to the Wo...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Mephedrone, the New Drug in Town

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Bull market for quasi-legal designer highs. Most people in the United States have never heard of it. Very few have ever tried it. But if E...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Tracking Synthetic Highs

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UN office monitors designer drug trade. Produced by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Global SMART Update   (PDF)...
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