• Curr Clin Pharmacol · May 2011

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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, Marta Torrens, Zsolt Demetrovics, Lucia Di Furia, Liv Flesland, Holger Siemann, Arvid Skutle, Peer Van Der Kreeft, and Norbert Scherbaum.
    • ReDNet’ Project; School of Pharmacy, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.o.corazza@herts.ac.uk
    • Curr Clin Pharmacol. 2011 May 1;6(2):125-9.

    AbstractBased 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.

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