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.