Handbook of Novel Psychoactive Substances

Author biographies Foreword 1. Overcoming the NPS challenge: an introduction SECTION ONE NPS Users: Prevalence, Patterns, and Prevention 2. The need for clinical guidelines on NPS: NEPTUNE 3. NPS: epidemiology, user group characteristics, patterns, motives, and problems 4. The NPS crisis in British prisons 5. Current trends in performance- and image-enhancing substance use among gym goers, exercisers, and athletes SECTION TWO Clinical Recommendations and Best Practices Across Front-Line Health Professionals 6. NPS in emergency rooms: dealing with aggressiveness and psychomotor agitation 7. A sentinel and design model of evidence collection on acute drug and NPS toxicity: the Euro-Den Plus Project 8. Novel and traditional club substances' association to psychopathological and medical sequelae: the Ibiza project SECTION THREE Substances, Adverse Effects, and Clinical Management 9. Spice drugs, synthetic cannabinoids, and "Spiceophrenia" 10. Synthetic cannabinoids, opioids, and polydrug use: clinical implications 11. Synthetic cathinones and related fatalities in the United Kingdom 12. Marvin the Paranoid Android and Alice in Wonderland: two case reports of synthetic cathinones abuse 13. Clinical aspects related to methylphenidate-based NPS 14. The worldwide spread of "Herbal Highs": the case of Kratom 15. Clinical and medical management of conditions caused by MDMA or "Ecstasy" 16. Clinical effects of 2C-B abuse 17. "In and Out of the Hole": an exploration on phencyclidine derivatives 18. Fentanyl and related opioids: new trends, dangers, and management 19. Designer benzodiazepines: new challenges and treatment options 20. Misuse, recreational use, and addiction in relation to prescription medicines