Chemical classification of new psychoactive substances (NPS)
This work comprehensively reviews some fundamental concepts about drugs, especially focusing on new psychoactive substances (NPS), and their typical classifications based on either their effects (hallucinogens, stimulants or depressants), their origin (natural, synthetic, or semisynthetic), or legal...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repositorio: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/47307 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/47307 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2020.105877 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | New psychoactive substances Classification of drugs Chemical classification Química Chemistry |
| Sumario: | This work comprehensively reviews some fundamental concepts about drugs, especially focusing on new psychoactive substances (NPS), and their typical classifications based on either their effects (hallucinogens, stimulants or depressants), their origin (natural, synthetic, or semisynthetic), or legal situation (lawful, illicit, or unregulated). These classifications are highly useful in the medicine/legal field, but completely useless for the chemical determination of drugs. Hence, a classification of NPS based on their chemical composition is revised and discussed. This classification seeks to merge those recent and dispersed chemical groupings of NPS found in scientific literature and/or health/drugs reports from World/European/American Institutions facing the illicit use of drugs (WHO, UNODC, EMCDDA, OEDA, DEA, etc.) into a unique general classification, which might be useful for every forensic practitioner/researcher dealing with the identification of new psychoactive substances. |
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