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It says that, between 2009 and 2011, 114 new psychoactive drugs were identified in the European Union.
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Strathclyde Police said Annihilation was one of many psychoactive substances they been made aware of in recent months.
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Among the public, scholars and within the medical profession, a backlash has developed against the widespread use of psychoactive drugs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It includes psychoactive chemicals, which act on the brain.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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