New psychoactive substances (NPS) are a heterogeneous group of substances. They are
associated with a number of health and social harms on an individual and societal level …

Psychoactive substances with chemical structures or pharmacological profiles that are
similar to traditional drugs of abuse continue to emerge on the recreational drug market …

Objectives: Review the current opioid epidemic in the USA. Describe the mode of action of
the opiates. Summarize ways to prevent and manage opiate toxicity and overdose. Explain …

Background: Synthetic benzimidazole opioids (BOs) are highly potent µ-opioid receptor
agonists with heroin-like effects. Isotonitazene was first available in 2019 in the drug market …

Prestigious and authoritative, this fully updated fourteenth edition of Simpson's Forensic
Medicine remains a classic; one of the world's leading introductory texts in the field of …

Recently, synthetic opioid-related overdose fatalities, led by illicitly manufactured fentanyl
and analogs, increased at an alarming rate, posing a global public health threat. New …

The use of novel synthetic opioids as recreational drugs has become a public health
concern as they are implicated in numerous fatal intoxications across the world. Synthetic …

The term 'opioids' refers to both the natural compounds ('opiates') which are extracted from
the opium poppy plant (Papaver somniferum) and their semi-synthetic and synthetic …

An important role of modern forensic and clinical toxicologists is to monitor the adverse
events of novel psychoactive substances (NPS). Following a prior review from 2013 to 2016 …

Sudden cardiac death is, by definition, an unexpected, untimely death caused by a cardiac
condition in a person with known or unknown heart disease. This major international public …