Neuropharmacology of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) The Science Behind the Headlines /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baumann, Michael H. (Editor), Glennon, Richard A. (Editor), Wiley, Jenny L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 32
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Public health.; Psychopharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Public Health.

Designer drugs, or new psychoactive substances (NPS), are synthetic chemicals that mimic the effects of classic drugs of abuse. There has been an alarming worldwide increase in the abuse of NPS in recent years. NPS are cheap, easy to obtain, and often legally available. In this volume, leading exper...