Athletes, like others, use recreational and lorillicit psychoactive drugs. However, many athletes also use drugs to enhance their training or performance, including an array of bizarre and exotic substances. Although the majority of these substances are not psychoactive, they may be abused by athletes. Some of these substances, such as anabolic steroids and human growth honnone, are referred to...

Agnieszka Lisowska graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy with Laboratory Medicine Division at the Medical University of Warsaw. Currently she is a PhD student in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Care at the Medical University of Warsaw. Her areas of research involve myocardial infarction, cardiotoxicity of novel psychoactive substances, and adherence to medications among ...

The concomitant use of psychoactive substances in HIV infection has significant implications for both transmission and progression of the disease as well as in affecting the adherence to treatment regimen. This study assessed the prevalence and pattern of psychoactive substance use as well as determined the predictors among HIV+ population at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in northwestern Nig...

This research explores the phenomenon of ‘legal highs’ or Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), directing substantial focus towards the exploration of user attraction. Whilst legal high research is expanding, the topic of legal highs still remains a relatively under-researched topic. In particular, research concerning the user is in short supply, as policy makers remain detached from the importa...

Data were analyzed from the National Survey on Substance Use (ENPreCoSP-2.008) in 6,122 cases to estimate the prevalence of psychoactive substance use and assess the association between unmet basic needs (UBN) and family income and the consumption of psychoactive substances by individuals 18-34 years of age in 10 provinces in Northern Argentina. The study conducted descriptive statistical analy...

Novel psychoactive substances flood worldwide markets faster than they can be banned. Legislators struggle to find a balance between free availability, prescription systems, and criminalisation, while physicians try to balance risks and benefits of drug treatment and identify drug abuse - a tightrope walk. Classification of psychoactive substances is central to these decision-making processes b...

A set of seized "legal high" samples and pure novel psychoactive substances have been examined by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy using polymer-stabilized Ag nanoparticle (Poly-SERS) films. The films both quenched fluorescence in bulk samples and allowed identification of μg quantities of drugs collected with wet swabs from contaminated surfaces.