Psychoactive substances with chemical structures or pharmacological profiles that are
similar to traditional drugs of abuse continue to emerge on the recreational drug market …

In the area of psychotropic drugs, tryptamines are known to be a broad class of classical or
serotonergic hallucinogens. These drugs are capable of producing profound changes in …

New psychoactive substances (NPSs), sometimes referred to as “legal highs” in more
colloquial environments/the media, are a class of compounds that have been recently made …

Keeping up with emerging drugs of abuse will always be a challenge for physicians. As law
enforcement agencies classify certain drugs as illegal,“street pharmacists” rapidly adapt and …

The emergence of new psychoactive substances has earned a great deal of attention, and
several reports of acute poisoning and deaths have been issued involving, for instance …

Medicinal chemistry is a science applied to the search and discovery of new therapeutic
agents for the treatment of various diseases. Therefore, promising structures have been …

Bath salts are designer drugs with stimulant properties that are a growing medical and
psychiatric concern due to their widespread availability and use. Although the chemical …

The use of new psychoactive substances (NPS) is increasing and currently> 600 NPS have
been reported. However, limited information on neuropharmacological and toxicological …

Synthetic, or “designer” drugs, are created by manipulating the chemical structures of other
psychoactive drugs so that the resulting product is structurally similar but not identical to …

3, 4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) and 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine
(MDMA) are the main components of illicit stimulant drugs, also known as “ecstasy”, which …