Reports from various government agencies; including EMCDDA, NIFLIS, DEA, ONDCP, UNODC, regarding emerging designer drugs can be accessed from the table below. Use the search feature or links below to access contents.
3,4-Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV)
(Street Names: “bath salts,” “Ivory Wave,” “plant fertilizer,” “Vanilla Sky,” “Energy-1”)
Drug Enforcement Administration; Office of Diversion Control
Drug & Chemical Evaluation Section; May 2013
Acute Kidney Injury Associated with Synthetic Cannabinoid Use — Multiple States, 2012
Centers for Disease Control Prevention; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report; Vol. 62 / No. 6 Februrary 15, 2013
Bath Salts or Designer Cathinones (Synthetic Stimulants)
Drug Fact Sheet
Drug Enforcement Administration
Drugs of Abuse
U.S. Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Administration; 2011
Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits Involving Synthetic Cannabinoids
SAMHSA Drug Abuse Warning Network
The DAWN Report; December 4; 2012
Emergency Department Visits After Use of a Drug Sold as “Bath Salts” — Michigan, November 13, 2010–March 31, 2011
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; 60; May 18, 2011
Emerging 2C-Phenethylamines, Piperazines, and Tryptamines in NFLIS, 2006-2011
National Forensic Laboratory Information System
U.S. Department of Justice; Drug Enforcement Administration; Office of Diversion Control
Pharmacology and Toxicology of Amphetamine and Related Designer Drugs
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Monograph Series; 94; 1989
Synthetic Cannabinoids and Synthetic Cathinones Reported in NFLIS, 2009-2010
National Forensic Laboratory Information System
U.S. Department of Justice; Drug Enforcement Administration; Office of Diversion Control
Synthetic Cathinones (Bath Salts): An Emerging Domestic Threat
U.S. Department of Justice
National Drug Intelligence Center; July 2011
Synthetic Cathinones (“Bath Salts”)
Drug Facts
National Institute on Drug Abuse; November 2012
