Novel Psychoactive Substances

It’s one of the first things prohibitionists and reformers agree on about NPS: These drugs are just not that great - Stefanie Jones

Novel Psychoactive Substances
Novel Psychoactive Substances

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It’s a rare day when the prohibitionist establishment and die-hard drug policy reformers are in agreement — but that happens to be the case more often than not when it comes to what the U.S. insists on calling “synthetic drugs.” Known more properly around the world as NPS (novel psychoactive substances), this group of newly created or rediscovered drugs may very well, both groups believe, signal the death of the modern drug war.

Which is ironic, given the modern drug war created them.

Although the precise timeline is debatable, NPS — including substances with names like K2, Spice, mephedrone, “flakka” and 25i-nBOMe—only…

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 These Lousy Drugs Are Going to End the Drug War

It’s a rare day when the prohibitionist establishment and die-hard drug policy reformers are in agreement — but that happens to be the case more often than not when it comes to what the U.S. insists on calling “synthetic drugs.” Known more properly around the world as NPS (novel psychoactive substances), this group of newly created or rediscovered drugs may very well, both groups believe, signal the death of the modern drug war.

Justso - Justice Implementation and Testing of Novel Synthetic Opioids

Novel Synthetic Opioids (NSO) are a class of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) that mimic morphine and heroin but, in contrast to them, may be fully effective by the intranasal and oral route and many times more potent than morphine in producing acute toxicity.

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Legal Highs’ are substances which produce the same, or similar effects, to drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy, but are not controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

DrugWarFacts.org

The creation of new substances to exploit loopholes in drug control legislation has been a problem since the international drug control system was first established. The proliferation of such substances in recent decades was influenced by the work done by Ann and Alexander Shulgin on phenethylamines8 and tryptamines9 in the 1960s and the 1970s. The Shulgins reported over 230 psychoactive compounds that they had synthesized and evaluated for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential. More recently, a number of piperazines, synthetic cathinones and synthetic cannabinoids emerged, which were marketed as 'legal' alternatives to controlled substances.

The diverse reasons for using Novel Psychoactive Substances - A qualitative study of the users' own perspectives

The number of easily accessible and legally ambiguous Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) is increasing, and the market for such drugs is assumed to keep growing.

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