Sentences with phrase «new psychoactive drugs»

In 2014, 101 new psychoactive drugs were identified, worldwide.

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The new strategy has emerged after Home Office noticed new threats identifies as new psychoactive substances (NPS), image and performance - enhancing drugs, chemsex drugs and misuse of prescribed medicines.

«In the last 12 months, all reports speak of drug issues, and by and large that is new psychoactive substances,» she says.

As from November 2011, the Home Secretary has the power to invoke a temporary class drug order for new psychoactive substances that, following advice from the ACMD, are considered to be a cause for concern.

A new psychoactive synthetic drug emerges on the market in the UK every week and most experts agree the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act is incapable of dealing with the rate of change.

The psychoactive substances bill sought to crack down on legal highs — especially the new generation of drugs that are designed to mimic the effects of traditional illicit substances such as cannabis and ecstasy — which the Home Office says caused 129 deaths in 2015.

One of the least - noticed aspects of the new psychoactive substances bill is that it effectively scraps the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).

The new definition reads: «A substance produces a psychoactive effect in a person if, by stimulating or depressing the person's central nervous system, it affects the person's mental functioning or emotional state; as measured by the production of a pharmacological response on the central nervous system or which produces a response in in - vitro tests qualitatively identical to substances controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and references to a substance's psychoactive effects are to be read accordingly.»

For example, we have just introduced tougher new rules on drug driving, because getting behind the wheel under the influence of any psychoactive substance is a monumentally dangerous thing to do.

On this week's show: New research shows psychoactive drugs were present at the dawn of the first complex societies, and a long - term study that questions how plants will deal with rising carbon dioxide levels

In 2010 alone, 41 new psychoactive substances were reported by European nations — more than triple the amount identified in 2008, according to a report issued by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

The new DIY substances range from a vast inventory of performance - enhancing drugs consumed by gym rats looking to get big, to an ever - growing selection of psychoactive compounds sampled by club - hopping teenagers, to synthetic variations of hard - core narcotics wolfed down by desperate drug addicts.

The study, published in the newest special issue of Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, was mentioned in a presentation on the topic of medical marijuana to the New Mexico Legislative Health & Human Services Committee last November, and is now available from Routledge Journals with Free Access.

Almost weekly, a new synthetic psychoactive drug comes onto the market somewhere in Europe that can be ordered legally and easily, for example as an incense blend, via the Internet.

New psychoactive substances have been associated with fatalities and severe injuries in a number of cases in the U.S. and have led investigators to rethink traditional drug monitoring protocols.

The Psychoactive Substances Act was supposed to regulate synthetic drug production in New Zealand by making manufacturers prove their products were safe — but the rushed policy hindered the original goal, finds a new study from Massey UniversiNew Zealand by making manufacturers prove their products were safe — but the rushed policy hindered the original goal, finds a new study from Massey Universinew study from Massey University.