Psychoactive bath salts: Compounds, mechanisms, and toxicities

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 243-244

  Lehner, Kurt R ^a   Baumann, Michael H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4' METHYLMETHCATHINONE; BATH SALT; CATHINONE; DOPAMINE; METHYLENEDIOXYPYROVALERONE; METHYLONE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; PYROVALERONE; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ALERTNESS; DELUSION; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG CONTROL; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIA; MOOD; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; TACHYCARDIA;

ALKALOIDS; ANIMALS; DESIGNER DRUGS; HUMANS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84869061541     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.162     Document Type: Note

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