New Psychoactive Substances: Pharmacology, Clinical, Forensic and Analytical Toxicology

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This volume is designed to feature the pharmacology of new psychoactive substances, legislative aspects, information exchange including epidemiology, and clinical, forensic, and analytical toxicology in order to facilitate the understanding of this complex and rapidly developing phenomenon. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Responding to New Psychoactive Substances in the European Union: Early Warning, Risk Assessment, and Control Measures (Michael Evans-Brown, Roumen Sedefov)....Pages 3-49 Emergence, Diversity, and Control of New Psychoactive Substances: A Global Perspective (Justice N. A. Tettey, Conor Crean, Susan C. Ifeagwu, Martin Raithelhuber)....Pages 51-67 Self-Experiments with Psychoactive Substances: A Historical Perspective (Torsten Passie, Simon D. Brandt)....Pages 69-110 Neuropharmacology of Synthetic Cathinones (Michael H. Baumann, Hailey M. Walters, Marco Niello, Harald H. Sitte)....Pages 113-142 Pharmacology of MDMA- and Amphetamine-Like New Psychoactive Substances (Linda D. Simmler, Matthias E. Liechti)....Pages 143-164 The Chemistry and Pharmacology of Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists as New Psychoactive Substances: Origins (Samuel D. Banister, Mark Connor)....Pages 165-190 The Chemistry and Pharmacology of Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonist New Psychoactive Substances: Evolution (Samuel D. Banister, Mark Connor)....Pages 191-226 Serotonergic Psychedelics: Experimental Approaches for Assessing Mechanisms of Action (Clinton E. Canal)....Pages 227-260 Phencyclidine-Based New Psychoactive Substances (Jason Wallach, Simon D. Brandt)....Pages 261-303 1,2-Diarylethylamine- and Ketamine-Based New Psychoactive Substances (Jason Wallach, Simon D. Brandt)....Pages 305-352 Synthetic Opioids (Patrick M. Beardsley, Yan Zhang)....Pages 353-381 Designer Benzodiazepines: Another Class of New Psychoactive Substances (Bjoern Moosmann, Volker Auwärter)....Pages 383-410 Bioanalytical Methods for New Psychoactive Substances (Lea Wagmann, Hans H. Maurer)....Pages 413-439 Toxicokinetics of NPS: Update 2017 (Markus R. Meyer)....Pages 441-459 Epidemiology of NPS Based Confirmed Overdose Cases: The STRIDA Project (Anders Helander, Matilda Bäckberg)....Pages 461-473 Patterns of Acute Toxicity Associated with New Psychoactive Substances (Simon L. Hill, Paul I. Dargan)....Pages 475-494 Fatal Poisonings Associated with New Psychoactive Substances (Robert Kronstrand, Davide Guerrieri, Svante Vikingsson, Ariane Wohlfarth, Henrik Gréen)....Pages 495-541 Wastewater Analysis for Community-Wide Drugs Use Assessment (Christoph Ort, Lubertus Bijlsma, Sara Castiglioni, Adrian Covaci, Pim de Voogt, Erik Emke et al.)....Pages 543-566