Emerging Issues in Analytical Chemistry

Designer Drugs

Chemistry, Analysis, Regulation, Toxicology, Epidemiology & Legislation of New Psychoactive Substances

Roy Gerona
Elsevier
296 pages
ISBN: 9780128117644
January 2024

This book presents both an overview and a guide to techniques for designer drug analysis. Proliferation of the synthesis and use of designer drugs is a serious public health problem with social, economic, and legal implications. Whether abuse is studied at the population level or the individual level, researchers need both background and highly detailed technical information on specific drugs and drug classes in order to combat the proliferation and highly damaging consequences of these substances.