Chemical classification of new psychoactive substances (NPS)

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Authors
Zapata Arráez, FélixUniversity of Alcalá Author; Matey Cabañas, Jose Manuel; Montalvo García, GemmaUniversity of Alcalá Author; García Ruiz, CarmenUniversity of Alcalá Author
Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/47307
DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2020.105877
ISSN: 0026-265X
Date
2021-04
Embargo end date
2023-04-30
Academic Departments
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Química Analítica, Química Física e Ingeniería Química
Teaching unit
Unidad docente Química Analítica e Ingeniería Quimica
Funders
Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Policiales
Universidad de Alcalá
Bibliographic citation
Microchemical Journal, 2021, v. 163, n. 105877, p. 1-13
Keywords
New psychoactive substances
Classification of drugs
Chemical classification
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/IUICP//IUICP-2019%2F06/ES/Identificación de factores de riesgo en caso de abusos sexuales facilitados por drogas (DFSA) basada en datos forense-policiales
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/IUICP//IUICP-2019%2F07/ES/Investigación de perfiles de consumo de nuevas sustancias psicoactivas (NPS) en España
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
© Elsevier, 2021
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Abstract
This work comprehensively reviews some fundamental concepts about drugs, especially focusing on new psychoactive substances (NPS), and their typical classifications based on either their effects (hallucinogens, stimulants or depressants), their origin (natural, synthetic, or semisynthetic), or legal situation (lawful, illicit, or unregulated). These classifications are highly useful in the medicine/legal field, but completely useless for the chemical determination of drugs. Hence, a classification of NPS based on their chemical composition is revised and discussed. This classification seeks to merge those recent and dispersed chemical groupings of NPS found in scientific literature and/or health/drugs reports from World/European/American Institutions facing the illicit use of drugs (WHO, UNODC, EMCDDA, OEDA, DEA, etc.) into a unique general classification, which might be useful for every forensic practitioner/researcher dealing with the identification of new psychoactive substances.

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