TY - JOUR
T1 - An Update on the Implications of New Psychoactive Substances in Public Health
AU - Simão, Ana Y.
AU - Antunes, Mónica
AU - Cabral, Emanuel
AU - Oliveira, Patrik
AU - Rosendo, Luana M.
AU - Brinca, Ana Teresa
AU - Alves, Estefânia
AU - Marques, Hernâni
AU - Rosado, Tiago
AU - Passarinha, Luís A.
AU - Andraus, Maristela
AU - Barroso, Mário
AU - Gallardo, Eugenia
N1 - Funding Information:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F00709%2F2020/PT#
UIDP/00709/2020#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04378%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F04378%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/POR_CENTRO/2020.09070.BD/PT
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/POR_NORTE/2020.09080.BD/PT#
Funding:
The Associate Laboratory Institute for Health and Bioeconomy–i4HB (project LA/P/0140/2020) which are financed by National Funds from FCT/MCTES. Ana Y. Simão and Mónica Antunes acknowledge the PhD fellowships from FCT (2020.05765.BD).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022/4/17
Y1 - 2022/4/17
N2 - The emergence of new psychoactive substances has earned a great deal of attention, and several reports of acute poisoning and deaths have been issued involving, for instance, synthetic opiates. In recent years, there have been profound alterations in the legislation concerning consump-tion, marketing, and synthesis of these compounds; rapid alert systems have also been subject to changes, and new substances and new markets, mainly through the internet, have appeared. Their effects and how they originate in consumers are still mostly unknown, primarily in what concerns chronic toxicity. This review intends to provide a detailed description of these substances from the point of view of consumption, toxicokinetics, and health consequences, including case reports on intoxications in order to help researchers and public health agents working daily in this area.
AB - The emergence of new psychoactive substances has earned a great deal of attention, and several reports of acute poisoning and deaths have been issued involving, for instance, synthetic opiates. In recent years, there have been profound alterations in the legislation concerning consump-tion, marketing, and synthesis of these compounds; rapid alert systems have also been subject to changes, and new substances and new markets, mainly through the internet, have appeared. Their effects and how they originate in consumers are still mostly unknown, primarily in what concerns chronic toxicity. This review intends to provide a detailed description of these substances from the point of view of consumption, toxicokinetics, and health consequences, including case reports on intoxications in order to help researchers and public health agents working daily in this area.
KW - health problems
KW - new psychoactive substances
KW - toxicity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128263914&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/ijerph19084869
DO - 10.3390/ijerph19084869
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35457736
AN - SCOPUS:85128263914
SN - 1661-7827
VL - 19
JO - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
JF - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
IS - 8
M1 - 4869
ER -