New psychoactive substances: a review and updates

A Shafi, AJ Berry, H Sumnall… - Therapeutic …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
New psychoactive substances (NPS) are a heterogeneous group of substances. They are
associated with a number of health and social harms on an individual and societal level …

[HTML][HTML] Advantages and challenges of dried blood spot analysis by mass spectrometry across the total testing process

R Zakaria, KJ Allen, JJ Koplin, P Roche, RF Greaves - Ejifcc, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods To address these aims we performed a key word search of the PubMed and
MEDLINE online databases in conjunction with individual manual searches to gather …

Screening methods for rapid determination of new psychoactive substances (NPS) in conventional and non-conventional biological matrices

S Graziano, L Anzillotti, G Mannocchi, S Pichini… - … of pharmaceutical and …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the last years, a global awareness has arisen from the reported harmful effects and public
health risks associated with the consumption of new psychoactive substances (NPSs) …

Rapid and simple procedure for the determination of cathinones, amphetamine-like stimulants and other new psychoactive substances in blood and urine by GC–MS

G Mercieca, S Odoardi, M Cassar, SS Rossi - Journal of pharmaceutical …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last few years an increasing number of new psychoactive substances (NPS), with
different chemical structures (of which 37% are stimulants), have been released into the illicit …

LC–MS/MS and volumetric absorptive microsampling for quantitative bioanalysis of cathinone analogues in dried urine, plasma and oral fluid samples

L Mercolini, M Protti, MC Catapano, J Rudge… - … of pharmaceutical and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In the last few years, several cathinone analogues have appeared on the illicit drug market
and proposed as an alternative to already known stimulants in several recreational settings …

Simple and rapid screening procedure for 143 new psychoactive substances by liquid chromatography‐tandem mass spectrometry

P Adamowicz, B Tokarczyk - Drug testing and Analysis, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, many new psychoactive substances (NPS) from several drug classes have
appeared on the drug market. These substances, also known as 'legal highs', belong to …

Toxicology and analysis of psychoactive tryptamines

S Malaca, AF Lo Faro, A Tamborra, S Pichini… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Our understanding of tryptamines is poor due to the lack of data globally. Tryptamines
currently are not part of typical toxicology testing regimens and their contribution to drug …

Emerging drugs of abuse: current perspectives on substituted cathinones

M Paillet-Loilier, A Cesbron… - Substance abuse and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Substituted cathinones are synthetic analogs of cathinone that can be considered as
derivatives of phenethylamines with a beta-keto group on the side chain. They appeared in …

High-throughput screening for new psychoactive substances (NPS) in whole blood by DLLME extraction and UHPLC–MS/MS analysis

S Odoardi, M Fisichella, FS Romolo… - … of Chromatography B, 2015 - Elsevier
The increasing number of new psychoactive substances (NPS) present in the illicit market
render their identification in biological fluids/tissues of great concern for clinical and forensic …

LC coupled to low-and high-resolution mass spectrometry for new psychoactive substance screening in biological matrices–where do we stand today?

MR Meyer, HH Maurer - Analytica chimica acta, 2016 - Elsevier
The field of new psychoactive substances (NPS) is highly dynamic and the situation
changes from year to year. Therefore, the current review provides a timely update about the …