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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Mephedrone"”.
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Comparison of Liquid-Liquid Extraction and Solid Phase Extraction of Mephedrone
… helpful in that it can provide a starting point. Mephedrone is a new designer drug that has become a problem over the past few years. Often marketed as bath salts and plant food, mephedrone has become the knockoff replacement for amphetamines. This experiment focused on comparing liquid-liquid …
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CHARACTERIZING THE PHARMACOLOGICAL PROFILE OF MEPHEDRONE AND DETERMINING THE ABUSE LIABILITY MECHANISMS
… cathinones, including, 4-methyl-N-methcathinone (mephedrone), 3,4-methylenedioxy-N- methylcathinone (methylone) and methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV). These three are commonly found in bath salts. One of the major psychoactive ingredients in bath salts is mephedrone. Mephedrone grew in popularity …
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How individuals experience and make sense of their problematic mephedrone use : an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… aims to answer these questions, with a focus on mephedrone, one of the most newly identified and popularly used club drugs in the United Kingdom. Semi-structured interviews with six male users of mephedrone were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Findings suggested that the …
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Evaluation of the mechanisms of neurotoxcity using metabolomic strategies
… substances that affect humans. Cobalt and mephedroneare examples of neurotoxic compounds with little known about their mode of action.Cobalt neurotoxicity was investigated in human astrocytoma and neuroblastoma cellsusing proliferation assays coupled with LC-MS based metabolomics and …
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INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE STEREOCHEMICAL AND GLUTAMATERGIC MECHANISMS OF THE "BATH SALTS" SYNTHETIC CATHINONES MEPHEDRONE AND MDPV IN RATS
… this class of drugs are 4-methylmethcathinone (mephedrone, MEPH) and 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV). The novelty of these compounds in the illicit drug marketplace has limited the current understanding of synthetic cathinone neuropharmacology. Our studies, as outlined in this …
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‘I quit heroin for meow’: A qualitative study of the use of new psychoactive substances among problem drug users in South Wales
… had switched to injecting a stimulant NPS – mephedrone, which was previously only popular among recreational drug users.<br/><br/>Little is known about NPS use among ‘problem drug users’ as research has tended to focus on recreational drug users. The thesis fills this gap in knowledge by …