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Chapter 8B - Amphetamine-type Stimulants: An Overview

from Part III - Drugs with Primarily Stimulant Effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2022

Dima Abdulrahim  and
Owen Bowden-Jones
Dima Abdulrahim
Affiliation:
Programme Manager and Principal Researcher for the NEPTUNE Project, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Owen Bowden-Jones
Affiliation:
Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
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Summary

Amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) are world-wide the second most popular group of drugs after cannabis (UNODC, 2019)23 and a significant proportion of NPS with stimulant effects are ATS.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) as a group of drugs whose principal members include amphetamine and methamphetamine. A range of other substances also fall into this group, such as methcathinone, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, methylphenidate and 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine(MDMA).

Globally, seizures of ATS increased sharply from the second half of the 1990s until 2001 and over the period 2009–2017.24 The largest number of seizures in the past few years have been methamphetamine, followed by amphetamine, ‘ecstasy’ type substances, other stimulants (MDPV, methcathinone, methylone, several other cathinones, dimethoxyamphetamine and several piperazines) and prescription stimulants.

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Textbook of Clinical Management of Club Drugs and Novel Psychoactive Substances
NEPTUNE Clinical Guidance
 , pp. 146 - 164
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Print publication year: 2022

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