Showing posts with label synthetic drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label synthetic drugs. Show all posts
Friday, September 2, 2016

Synthetic Dialectic

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Banning New Drugs: What is the Path Forward? Eighteen months ago, in a post on novel synthetic drugs in the cannabinoid and cat...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Update on Synthetic Drug Surprises

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Spicier than ever. Four drug deaths last month in Britain have been blamed on so-called “Superman” pills being sold as Ecstasy, bu...
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Monday, October 7, 2013

Spiced: Synthetic Cannabis Keeps Getting Stronger

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Case reports of seizures in Germany from 2008 to 2011. I wish I could stop writing blog posts about Spice, as the family of syntheti...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

“Spiceophrenia”

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Synthetic cannabimimetics and psychosis. Not long ago, public health officials were obsessing over the possibility that “skunk” mari...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

LSD Mutates Into NBOMe

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What’s on that blotter? It is a darkly poetic indictment of the War on Drugs that LSD, the first synthetic psychedelic, demonized for d...
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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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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...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Bath Salts, Graphically

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What you need to know about mephedrone. The Pat Moore Foundation has put together this nifty chart as a primer on mephedrone, the amphe...
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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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