Luis M. Tojo

Legal highs: staying on top of the flood of novel psychoactive substances

Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology January 26, 2015 David Baumeister, Luis M. Tojo, Derek K. Tracy 158 citations

There has been growing clinical, public, and media awareness and concern about the availability and potential harmfulness of so-called ‘legal highs’, which are more appropriately called new or novel psychoactive substances (NPS). A cat-and-mouse process has emerged wherein unknown chemists and laboratories are producing new, and as yet nonproscribed, compounds for human consumption; and as soon...