Legal 'highs' available through the Internet-implications and solutions?
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Legal 'highs' available through the Internet-implications and solutions?
Prescription drugs are purchased via the Internet, but the consistent finding across many different populations is that the Internet appears to be a relatively minor source for illicit purchases of prescription medications by individual end users, the obvious exception being phosphodiesterase inhibitors for erectile dysfunction. In contrast, the world of escalating availability of illicit drugs...
متن کاملA chemical analysis examining the pharmacology of novel psychoactive substances freely available over the internet and their impact on public (ill)health. Legal highs or illegal highs?
OBJECTIVES Public Health England aims to improve the nation's health and acknowledges that unhealthy lifestyles, which include drug use, undermine society's health and well-being. Recreational drug use has changed to include a range of substances sold as 'research chemicals' but known by users as 'legal highs' (legal alternatives to the most popular illicit recreational drugs), which are of an ...
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BACKGROUND The supply of recreational drugs has changed and users increasingly buy 'legal highs' over the Internet. Use of these is common and there is a potential for significant toxicity associated with their use. AIM To determine the content of legal highs available for purchase in the UK and whether the content of these remains consistent. METHODS Twenty-six legal highs were purchased m...
متن کامل[Prevalence, reasons, and forms of use of legal highs by internet-based survey participants].
AIM The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence, causes and forms of the use of legal highs in Poland. METHODS The study was based on an original questionnaire and was carried out through the Internet before banning of the legal highs in Poland. RESULTS The study covered 3013 people, aged 24.7 +/- 6.9, of which 9.3% admitted to use legal highs (6.5% ofwomen, and 14.7% ofmen, P < 0.01...
متن کاملWhippits, nitrous oxide and the dangers of legal highs
Nitrous oxide is increasingly being used as a recreational drug. Prolonged use of nitrous oxide can have disabling neurological sequelae due to functional inactivation of vitamin B₁₂. We present three cases illustrating the neurological complications of using nitrous oxide. Two of these patients received nitrous oxide as a consequence of repeated hospital attendance and the third via 'Whippit' ...
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عنوان ژورنال: QJM
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1460-2725,1460-2393
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcq066