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- Lure, variety of designer drugs is alarming, UN agency says
By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - A sharp rise in the variety of legal "designer drugs" with names that entice young people into thinking they pose no risk is alarming from a public health standpoint, the United Nations drugs agency said on Wednesday. The number of new psychoactive substances - marketed as "designer drugs" and "legal highs" - as reported by member states jumped by more than 50 ...
June 26, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News - Lure, variety of designer drugs is alarming, U.N. agency says
By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - A sharp rise in the variety of legal "designer drugs" with names that entice young people into thinking they pose no risk is alarming from a public health standpoint, the United Nations drugs agency said on Wednesday. The number of new psychoactive substances - marketed as "designer drugs" and "legal highs" - as reported by member states jumped by more than 50 ...
June 26, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News - UN: World struggling to cope with legal drugs that mimic illict substances
International authorities are struggling to deal with the number of drugs that mimic the effects of illegal substances but are not banned, a United Nations report said Wednesday.The World Drugs Report said that there were 251 known New Psychoactive Substances and they now outnumbered the number of internationally controlled drugs, 234.It said NPS were “substances of abuse” that “may pose a ...
June 26, 2013 - NBC NEWS