Synthetic Cathinones Novel Addictive and Stimulatory Psychoactive Su

Over the last decade a rapidly increasing number of novel psychoactive substance (NPSs), often marketed as “designer drugs”, “legal highs”, “herbal highs”, “research or intermediate chemicals” and “laboratory reagents”, has appeared on the drug market wor

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Synthetic Cathinones Novel Addictive and Stimulatory Psychoactive Substances

Current Topics in Neurotoxicity Volume 12

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Editor Jolanta B. Zawilska Department of Pharmacodynamics Medical University of Łódź Łódź Poland

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Over the last decade, a rapidly increasing number of novel psychoactive substance (NPS), often marketed as “designer drugs”, “legal highs”, “herbal highs”, “research or intermediate chemicals”, and “laboratory reagents”, has appeared on the drug market worldwide in an effort to bypass-controlled substance legislation. Products containing those compounds can be purchased online via website distributors, from retail and not-retail v