Think Dungeons and Dragons crossed with Breaking Bad.
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The names themselves are like something out of a bad sci-fi movie – you couldn’t make them up. I say “thinks” because what’s written on the colourful packaging isn’t always what’s contained within, adding to the risks involved. Having somehow established the use of NPSs, the next hurdle is to find out which of the literally countless substances available the patient thinks they’ve consumed. We are being encouraged to use the term NPS, a snappy abbreviation, and, for the sake of clarity, I am sticking to it. Yet the term “club drugs” is misleading too, because consumption of them is certainly not confined to clubs. The term is also rendered somewhat meaningless once a drug is proclaimed illegal, as happened recently to a local favourite known as Burst.ĭesigner drugs? Bath salts? Synthetic cathinones? There’s a very interesting report about club drugs by the psychiatrist Dr Owen Bowden-Jones, which acknowledges some of the difficulties around nomenclature, and has the advantage of including those on either side of the legal divide. The alternative name, legal highs, is more likely to yield useful results but covers a multitude of sins. This description is entirely useless when asking someone about their history of drug use. But recently things have become a lot more complicated, largely due to the advent of a pernicious collection of chemicals known as novel psychoactive substances. Now I know my opioids pretty well, and I’m quite comfortable with a wide range of alcoholic beverages.
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