The Changing Face of Recreational Drug Use

Our author writes that recent data from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime indicate that 540 different drugs classified as new psychoactive substances (NPS) have been identified worldwide as of 2014, and this number is expected to rise. His article describes the complexity of the NPS probl...

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Autor principal: Baumann, Michael H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Dana Foundation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4938259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27408674
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