This book is intended to serve as quick reference handbook on so-called designer drugs. These new, mainly synthetic compounds are also often referred to as analogues of controlled substances. This new work provides a unique directory of 104 designer drugs. This class of drugs is rapidly growing in variety and number of compounds. Although identification, toxicology and other properties have been thoroughly investigated, their analogues and derivatives remain poorly documented. This book fills the gap. Data which is available is often contradictory and confused. This directory provides a critical treatment of the subject which is thoroughly indexed including both the subject index and an index listing more that 230 street names of the described designer drugs. Divided into two parts; the first section describes aspects of designer drug manufacture, new abuse trends, sources of information and terminology. The second, descriptive part, classifies the drugs into ten main categories according to their chemical structure and prevalent pharmacological action. A separate chapter is devoted to each category, followed by a set of corresponding data sheets, street names and eventual synonyms, Toxicological data, short notes on the history of drugs as well as the most pertinent bibliographic references are included.

America has a long history of drug panics in which countless social problems have been blamed on the devastating effects of some harmful substance. In the last forty years, such panics have often focused on synthetic or designer drugs, like methamphetamine, PCP, Ecstasy, methcathinone, and rave drugs like ketamine, and GHB. Fear of these substances has provided critical justification for the continuing "war on drugs." Synthetic Panics traces the history of these anti-drug movements, demonstrating that designer chemicals inspire so much fear not because they are uniquely dangerous, but because they bring into focus deeply rooted public concerns about social and cultural upheaval. Jenkins highlights the role of the mass media in spreading anti-drug hysteria and shows how proponents of the war on drugs use synthetic panics to scapegoat society's "others" and exacerbate racial, class, and intergenerational conflict.

This book describes drugs that are created in illegal laboratories and abused on the street. The book discusses a number of drugs with street names, such as speed, CAT, and ecstasy. Their physical and psychological effects are discussed. Information taken from various case studies also is presented. New Internet sites added.

Explains what designer drugs are, their effects on the mind and body, how they are made and distributed, and laws regarding these drugs.

Excerpt from Chemical and Pharmaceutical Directory of All the Chemicals and Preparations (Compound Drugs) Now in General Use in the Drug Trade: Their Names and Synonyms Alphabetically Arranged; An Indispensable Handbook for Every Druggist, Physician and the Intelligent Public in General I take plasma in presenting to Druggists, Physicians and an intelligent Public in general, my Cannon and Pumaonu'nou.' directory. I have aimed to supply a long felt want, as such a Hand-book is indispensable to every Apothecary, Druggist and Physician. I trust, therefore, that the same will find as favorable a reception as my well known Pharmaceutical Directory. It contains the names and synonyms of all Compounds and Preparations which are in use by Druggists, Physicians and the Public in general, in three parts, alphabetically arranged, in English, Latin and German. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.