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Impact of the UK Psychoactive Substances Act on awareness, use, experiences and knowledge of potential associated health risks of Novel Psychoactive Substances
(2020-03-01)
Aims: The risk of potential harms prompted the UK government to introduce the Psychoactive Substances Act in 2016. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of this new legislation on patterns ...
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) – knowledge and experiences of drug users from Hungary, Poland, the UK and the USA
(2020-02-18)
Dopamine D 3 receptor partial agonists represent a new generation of atypical antipsychotics. Cariprazine, which has received centralized market authorization from the European Medicines Agency in 2017 for the treatment ...
Focus on clozapine withdrawal- and misuse-related cases, as reported to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) pharmacovigilance database
(2020-02-16)
Background: Clozapine is of high clinical relevance for the management of both treatment-resistant schizophrenia and psychotic disturbances with concurrent drug misuse. Although the molecule presents with a range of ...
How deaths can help clinicians and policy-makers understand the risks of Novel Psychoactive Substances.
(2020-01-14)
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS), especially those newly created, are largely an unknown quantity, particularly in terms of their potential serious adverse effects. This means that policy-makers and clinicians are ...
'New/Designer Benzodiazepines': an analysis of the literature and psychonauts’ trip reports
(2020-01-10)
Background: NPS belonging to the benzodiazepine (BZD) class, e.g., ‘legal/designer BZDs’/‘research chemicals’, have recently emerged in the drug (mainly online/virtual) market. Objective: While certain NPS belonging to the ...
Substance Use Disorders and Violence
(Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature, 2020-01-01)
Substance use seems to be associated with increased prevalence levels of violent behaviour in both general population and psychiatric patients, with ‘dual-diagnosis’ clients showing high rates of risky and criminal behaviour ...
Substance Use Disorders and Violence
(Springer Nature, 2020-01-01)
Substance use seems to be associated with increased prevalence levels of violent behaviour in both general population and psychiatric patients, with ‘dual-diagnosis’ clients showing high rates of risky and criminal behaviour ...