Designer drugs on the Internet : a phenomenon out-of-control?: The emergence of hallucinogenic drug Bromo-Dragonfly

Ornella Corazza; Fabrizio Schifano; Magi Farre; Paolo Deluca; Zoe Davey; Colin Drummond; Marta Torrens; Zsolt Demetrovics; Lucia Di Furia; Liv Flesland; Barbara Mervo; Jacek Moskalewicz; Agnieszka Pisarska; Harry Shapiro; Holger Siemann; Arvid Skutle; Cinzia Pezzolesi; Peer van der Kreeft; Norbert Scherbaum

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Designer drugs on the Internet : a phenomenon out-of-control? The emergence of hallucinogenic drug Bromo-Dragonfly

Ornella Corazza, Fabrizio Schifano, Magi Farre, Paolo Deluca, Zoe Davey, Colin Drummond, Marta Torrens, Zsolt Demetrovics, Lucia Di Furia, Liv Flesland, Barbara Mervo, Jacek Moskalewicz, Agnieszka Pisarska, Harry Shapiro, Holger Siemann, Arvid Skutle, Cinzia Pezzolesi, Peer van der Kreeft, Norbert Scherbaum

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Based on the material available in both the scientific literature and on the web, the present paper provides an updated pharmacological, chemical, toxicological and behavioural overview of Bromo-Dragonfly (1-(8-bromobenzo[1,2- b;4,5-b']difuran-4-yl)-2-aminopropane; 'B-fly'). B-Fly is a powerful, long lasting, LSD-like, hallucinogenic drug, which has been associated with a number of acute intoxications and fatalities in a number of countries. A critical discussion of the potential of misuse of B-fly but also of the methodological limitations, which are intrinsically associated with the analysis of online, non-peer reviewed, material, is presented. It is concluded that the availability of online information on novel psychoactive drugs, such as B-fly, may constitute a public health challenge. Better international collaboration levels may be needed to tackle this novel and fast growing phenomenon

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	125-129
Number of pages	4
Journal	Current Clinical Pharmacology
Volume	6
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2174/157488411796151129
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

ABDF
Bromo-Dragonfly
FLY-compounds
Internet monitoring
phenethylamines
designer drugs
ReDNet project
research chemicals
psychoactive drugs

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Corazza, O., Schifano, F., Farre, M., Deluca, P., Davey, Z., Drummond, C., Torrens, M., Demetrovics, Z., Di Furia, L., Flesland, L., Mervo, B., Moskalewicz, J., Pisarska, A., Shapiro, H., Siemann, H., Skutle, A., Pezzolesi, C., van der Kreeft, P., & Scherbaum, N. (2011). Designer drugs on the Internet : a phenomenon out-of-control? The emergence of hallucinogenic drug Bromo-Dragonfly. Current Clinical Pharmacology, 6(2), 125-129. https://doi.org/10.2174/157488411796151129

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Designer drugs on the Internet : a phenomenon out-of-control? The emergence of hallucinogenic drug Bromo-Dragonfly

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