[Mephedrone: a designer drug of recent use in France].
Therapie 2010 Danièle Debruyne, Marie-Anne Courné, Reynald Le Boisselier et al.
Designer drugs are currently marketed as substitutes for stimulant drugs as cocaine, amphetamine, MDMA...Unlike compounds listed as narcotics, these new substances are deliberately synthesized to avoid anti-drug laws. Among them, mephedrone (4-methylmethcatinone) that belongs to cathinone family, has been recently introduced in France. Users report positive euphoric and entactogenic effects....