[Current drugs. New clinical problems]

Bull Acad Natl Med. 2002;186(2):339-44.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The last decade has been marked by important changes in the way people use drugs. Psychostimulants and psychodysleptics are second in the list of drugs young people like the most, before heroin. Cannabis is most frequently used. The development of the "designer drugs" is included in the abusive context of research of molecules able to facilitate and reinforce relation-ships. They are almost always used with alcohol and cannabis and sometimes other psychotropic drugs.

MeSH terms

  • Hallucinogens / adverse effects
  • Humans
  • Illicit Drugs / adverse effects*
  • Lysergic Acid Diethylamide / adverse effects
  • N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine / adverse effects

Substances

  • Hallucinogens
  • Illicit Drugs
  • Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
  • N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine