Which policy for new psychoactive drugs?
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Generic legislation of new psychoactive drugs.
New psychoactive drugs (NPDs, new psychoactive substances) enter the market all the time. However, it takes several months to ban these NPDs and immediate action is generally not possible. Several European countries and drug enforcement officers insist on a faster procedure to ban NPDs. Introduction of generic legislation, in which clusters of psychotropic drugs are banned in advance, has been ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Addiction
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0965-2140
DOI: 10.1111/add.13478