Novel psychoactive substances are newly used designer drugs ("internet drugs", "research chemicals", "legal highs") potentially posing similar health risks to classic illicit substances. Chemically, many novel psychoactive substances can be classified as phenethylamines, amphetamines, synthetic cathinones, piperazines, pipradrols/piperidines, aminoindanes benzofurans, and tryptamines. Pharmacol...

BACKGROUND There has been significant media interest in the use of novel psychoactive substances (also known as 'legal highs') and reports in the medical literature of toxicity associated with their use. However, most surveys of recreational drug use focus on classical drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy, and there is limited information on how commonly emerging novel psychoactive substances are ...

Mathews Journal of Dermatology A Case of Remitting Psoriasis in Association with Hyperthyroidism in a Morbidly Obese Iraqi Female Ahmed Al-Imam*1,2 1Novel Psychoactive substances unit, University of Hertfordshire Doctoral College, Hertfordshire University, UK. 2Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, college of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Iraq. Corresponding Author: Ahmed Al-Imam, Nove...