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Drugs: The Straight Facts, Designer Drugs<br />
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The term designer drug was coined in the mid- to late 1980s when<br />
doctors, scientists, and law enforcement agencies noted that, over<br />
the past few decades, the number of people who were attempting<br />
to illegally synthesize mind-altering drugs in underground “clandestine”<br />
laboratories was increasing dramatically. These “basement<br />
chemists” were taking the chemical structures of known<br />
legal drugs, such as the narcotic painkiller Demerol®, and altering<br />
them slightly (even by one or two atoms) to produce closely<br />
related analogues (molecules with very similar chemical structures).<br />
The idea behind this illegal synthesis was to create a<br />
“designer drug” that was hundreds or thousands of times more<br />
potent than the original legal drug. For a few hundred dollars in<br />
chemicals and lab supplies, drug makers and dealers could produce<br />
literally millions of dollars’ worth of illegal drugs. Also, since<br />
the chemical structure<br />
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Table of Contents<br />
The Use and Abuse of Drugs<br />
David J. Triggle, Ph.D. 6<br />
1. Designer Drugs and the Brain 8<br />
2. Methamphetamine 18<br />
3. Ecstasy 30<br />
4. GHB 42<br />
5. Rohypnol 54<br />
6. Ketamine 62<br />
7. Painkiller Analogues 72<br />
Bibliography and Further Reading 83<br />
Websites 86<br />
Additional Resources 88<br />
Index 90<br />
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* ISBN: 0791076385<br />
* ISBN-13: 9780791076385<br />
* Format: Library Binding, 112pp<br />
* Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers<br />
* Pub. Date: January 2004<br />
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