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Synthetic Drugs Of Abuse

It seems that primitive man at times wished to escape his reality. He or she
probably found some natural herbal drugs to facilitate this desire. In fact
abuse of the coca leaf and the opium poppy has been occuring the last 3000 years,
and probably longer. The mescaline containing peyote cactus has been abused by
the indians for even longer. They thought it was a gift from god because they
often realised profound truths when they where inebriate(at least, thats what
they thought!).

In the 19. century the structure of mescaline was elucidated. It was also
discovered that the synthesis of N-methyl mescaline, would increase the drugs
potentcy, when compared to the precursor. The first ...

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produced strong rushes of euphoria. The average
man could not seem to control his/hers use of the drugs, and as a consequence,
all of theese products where put under federal control. They cannot be obtained
legally without a prescription from a doctor. People with an insight in
chemistry and a lack of morale, startet to produce these compunds for their own
financial gains.

The really clever chemists avoided doing anything illegal by creating
pharmacologically-active compunds, which where derived from known illegal drugs.
Not only where they able to produce similar compounds, but many of the new
compunds where much more potent than the original drug. This created the so-
called designer drug phenomenon. A very common abused drug is a resulat of this
development : MDMA ; or as the ravers prefer to call it, "ecstacy". It is an
amphetamine that produces euphoria, CNS stimulation and mild hallucinations.
Many of the new drugs were also highly addictive. A couple of years ago ...

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Added: 2/22/2005 10:40:24 PM
Category: Health & Medicine
Type: Premium Paper
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