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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
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.... 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 hig ....
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