What is 3-MMC? What do the analyses of the SINTES network reveal? What are the uses observed by TREND?
Captagon, in the overwhelming majority of cases, aside from the classic "fakes", is now simply another "street name" for amphetamine or speed.
Until now, most of our available knowledge on the NPS (new/novel psychoactive substance) phenomenon originated from traditional information systems on drugs and drug addiction (data on seizures and treatment demands, monitoring in a recreational setting, etc.).
This briefing is structured in three parts. It first presents the international legislative framework established by the United Nations and the European Union and laid down in three treaties: the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (amended by the 1972 protocol), the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and…
Precursor trafficking draws little attention as efforts are focused on seizures of finished products listed as narcotics. Yet, this trafficking is a reality that now touches all continents and makes use of all major global trade routes.
These last years, synthetic drug use has been presented as a new phenomenon, whose consequences are impossible to foresee.