It says that, between 2009 and 2011, 114 new psychoactive drugs were identified in the European Union.
Strathclyde Police said Annihilation was one of many psychoactive substances they been made aware of in recent months.
Ecstasy is methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA for short, which is a synthetic, psychoactive (mind-altering) drug with hallucinogenic and amphetamine-like properties.
The profits in psychoactive drugs, however, make it tempting to flout the law.
Among the public, scholars and within the medical profession, a backlash has developed against the widespread use of psychoactive drugs.
People need to make up their own minds about whether taking psychoactive drugs is a useful way to manage emotional problems.
Cathinone, one of the psychoactive agents in khat leaves, is highly unstable and loses its potency within three days of harvesting.
Diagnostic agents, vaccines, antimicrobials, even designer psychoactive drugs all appeared on the menu.
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Unlike Britain, they have concluded that a "long-term and more effective solution" is to license the importation, manufacture and sale of all new psychoactive products.
You know, everybody's now taking psychoactive medications, anti-depressants, other mood-stabilizing drugs.
To qualify, applicants (children included) generally must be taking psychoactive drugs.
To have a society in which there is NO psychoactive substance use is an illusion, and it will be good for our government to realize this.
Three groups of psychoactive substances were classified at the end of 2009 and the committee is now looking at mephedrone, also known as Meow or Toot.
As in Britain, the New Zealand government had attempted to control the influx of new psychoactive substances by imposing emergency restrictions under existing misuse of drugs legislation.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) said it was concerned about an increase in the number of deaths related to misusing the psychoactive drug.
Modern cannabis medications do not produce a "high" - the psychoactive ingredients are either missing or delivered in a much lower dose than in the street drug.
There is also strong evidence that cannabis has psychoactive effects on perception and mood, has a high potential for abuse, and can incur addiction and withdrawal symptoms.
This week New Zealand publishes its Psychoactive Substances Bill, legislation which some believe will transform the international debate on drugs policy when it comes into force in August.
That drug, rimonabant, produced significant weight loss and a drop in fasting insulin levels by affecting certain cannabinoid receptors in the exact opposite way that THC, marijuana's main psychoactive ingredient, does.
He presents data from pharmacological or epidemiological studies on what exactly those are, bolstering his argument with discussions on the nature of addiction and changing attitudes to psychoactive substances throughout history.
Novel psychoactive substances, mainly stimulants and cannabinoids from China sold on the internet, proliferate too quickly for anyone to keep track of them (though websites such as Erowid.org make an impressive attempt).
"You would expect a spontaneous remission rate of 10% within in a year, " said Professor Paul Salkovskis, Maudsley Hospital Centre for Anxiety Disorders, who asks whether it is safe to give people with OCD psychoactive substances at all.
Seeing that pharmaceutical marketing executives are evidently undeterred by the law, Dr. Angell, a senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School and former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, advocates a prohibition on prescribing psychoactive drugs off-label.
In the past four years, AstraZeneca ( AZN), Pfizer ( PFE), Eli Lilly ( LLY), Bristol-Myers Squibb ( BMY) and Forest Labs ( FRX) have all settled federal charges of marketing psychoactive drugs off-label, at a cost running into hundreds of millions.
With different names like Annihilation, Black Mamba, Spice, Benzo Fury, Amsterdam Gold, Bombay Blue Extreme, X, Karma, Miaow miaow, Bubble, White Magic, MC, M-Cat, Bounce, and 4-MMC, these types of psychoactive, synthetic equivalents of the traditional recreational drugs are produced and marketed at the rate of more than one a week, rendering existing laws practically useless.
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