Home Manufacture of Drugs: An Online Investigation and a Toxicological Reality Check of Online Discussions on Drug Chemistry
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11110%2F17%3A10365002" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11110/17:10365002 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2017.1320735" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2017.1320735</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2017.1320735" target="_blank" >10.1080/02791072.2017.1320735</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Home Manufacture of Drugs: An Online Investigation and a Toxicological Reality Check of Online Discussions on Drug Chemistry
Original language description
Emerging trends in market dynamics and the use of new psychoactive substances are both a public health concern and a complex regulatory issue. One novel area of investigation is the availability of homemade opioids, amphetamines and dissociatives, and the potential fueling of interest in clandestine home manufacture of drugs via the Internet. We illustrate here how online communal folk pharmacology of homemade drugs on drug website forums may actually inform home manufacture practices or contribute to the reduction of harms associated with this practice. Discrepancies between online information around purification and making homemade drugs safer, and the synthesis of the same substances in a proper laboratory environment, exist. Moderation and shutdown of synthesis queries and discussions online are grounded in drug websites adhering to harm-reduction principles by facilitating discussions around purification of homemade drugs only. Drug discussion forums should consider reevaluating their policies on chemistry discussions in aiming to reach people who cannot or will not refrain from cooking their own drugs with credible information that may contribute to reductions in the harms associated with this practice.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30312 - Substance abuse
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
ISSN
0279-1072
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
49
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
279-288
UT code for WoS article
000414166300002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85019636865