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Pharmaceutical Preparations > Synthetic Drugs > Designer Drugs

Preferred term

Designer Drugs  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Customized Drug
  • Customized Drugs
  • Designer Drug
  • Drug, Customized
  • Drug, Designer
  • Drugs, Customized

Note

  • coordinate with specific drug or chemical; do not confuse with DRUG DESIGN

Scope note

  • Drugs designed and synthesized, often for illegal street use, by modification of existing drug structures (e.g., amphetamines). Of special interest are MPTP (a reverse ester of meperidine), MDA (3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine), and MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine). Many drugs act on the aminergic system, the physiologically active biogenic amines.

History note

  • 1989

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015198

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