BACKGROUND: A growing number of novel substances have been abused as recreational
drugs by young people in the United States (US), Europe, and Australia. Called “legal …

Salvia divinorum is a perennial sage native to Oaxaca, Mexico, that has been used
traditionally in divination rituals and as a treatment for the “semimagical” disease panzón de …

The neoclerodane diterpene salvinorin A, found in the leaves of Salvia divinorum, is a potent
κ-opioid receptor agonist, making it an attractive scaffold for development into a treatment for …

The science of ethnobotany is reviewed in light of its multi-disciplinary contributions to
natural product research for the development of pharmaceuticals and pharmacological tools …

Salvia divinorum (salvia) is an intense, short-acting hallucinogenic plant gaining popularity
among adolescents in the United States. There has been little scientific documentation of …

Despite negative connotations and empirical evidence to support detrimental aspects of
fraternity and sorority membership, decades of nationally representative data show students …

Salvinorin A is a potent hallucinogen, isolated from the ethnomedical plant Salvia divinorum.
Salvinorin A is a selective high efficacy kappa-opioid receptor (KOPr) agonist, and thus …

BACKGROUND: There is growing use of Salvia divinorum (SD), a psychoactive plant that
produces hallucinogen-like effects through a kappa opioid receptor (KOR) mechanism. Little …

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is an endogenous hallucinogen with traditional use as a
sacrament in the orally active preparation of ayahuasca. Although the religious use of …

Introduction Novel psychoactive substances (NPS; aka 'legal highs' or 'smart drugs') are
advertised online as 'safe'and 'legal'natural/synthetic analogues of controlled illicit drugs …