Phenomenon of new drugs on the Internet: the case of ketamine derivative methoxetamine

Ornella Corazza; Fabrizio Schifano; Pierluigi Simonato; Suzanne Fergus; Sulaf Assi; Jacqueline Stair; John Corkery; Giuseppina Trincas; Paolo Deluca; Zoe Davey; Ursula Blaszko; Zsolt Demetrovics; Jacek Moskalewicz; Aurora Enea; Giuditta di Melchiorre; Barbara Mervo; Lucia Di Furia; Magi Farre; Liv Flesland; Manuela Pasinetti; Cinzia Pezzolesi; Agnieszka Pisarska; Harry Shapiro; Holger Siemann; Arvid Skutle; Aurora Enea; Giuditta di Melchiorre; Elias Sferrazza; Marta Torrens; Peer van der Kreeft; Daniela Zummo; Norbert Scherbaum

doi:10.1002/hup.1242

Phenomenon of new drugs on the Internet: the case of ketamine derivative methoxetamine

Ornella Corazza
, Fabrizio Schifano
, Pierluigi Simonato
, Suzanne Fergus
, Sulaf Assi
, Jacqueline Stair
, John Corkery
, Giuseppina Trincas
, Paolo Deluca
, Zoe Davey
, Ursula Blaszko
, Zsolt Demetrovics
, Jacek Moskalewicz
, Aurora Enea
, Giuditta di Melchiorre
, Barbara Mervo
, Lucia Di Furia
, Magi Farre
, Liv Flesland
, Manuela Pasinetti

Cinzia Pezzolesi, Agnieszka Pisarska, Harry Shapiro, Holger Siemann, Arvid Skutle, Aurora Enea, Giuditta di Melchiorre, Elias Sferrazza, Marta Torrens, Peer van der Kreeft, Daniela Zummo, Norbert Scherbaum

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On the basis of the material available both in the scientific literature and on the web, this paper aims to provide a pharmacological, chemical and behavioural overview of the novel compound methoxetamine. This is a dissociative drug related to ketamine, with a much longer duration of action and intensity of effects. A critical discussion of the availability of information on the web of methoxetamine as a new recreational trend is here provided. Those methodological limitations, which are intrinsically associated with the analysis of online, non-peer reviewed, material, are here discussed as well. It is concluded that the online availability of information on novel psychoactive drugs, such as methoxethanine, may constitute a pressing public health challenge. Better international collaboration levels and novel forms of intervention are necessary to tackle this fast-growing phenomenon. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	145-9
Number of pages	5
Journal	Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental
Volume	27
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/hup.1242
Publication status	Published - 2012

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Corazza, O., Schifano, F., Simonato, P., Fergus, S., Assi, S., Stair, J., Corkery, J., Trincas, G., Deluca, P., Davey, Z., Blaszko, U., Demetrovics, Z., Moskalewicz, J., Enea, A., di Melchiorre, G., Mervo, B., Di Furia, L., Farre, M., Flesland, L., ... Scherbaum, N. (2012). Phenomenon of new drugs on the Internet: the case of ketamine derivative methoxetamine. Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, 27(2), 145-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/hup.1242

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Phenomenon of new drugs on the Internet: the case of ketamine derivative methoxetamine

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