Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental
July 1, 2013
John Corkery, Simon Elliott, Fabrizio Schifano et al.
52 citations
OBJECTIVES: MDAI (5,6-methylenedioxy-2-aminoindane; 6,7-dihydro-5H-cyclopenta[f][1,3]benzodioxol-6-amine; 'sparkle'; 'mindy') is a psychoactive substance, sold primarily over the Internet and in 'head' shops as a 'legal high'. Synthesised and used as a research chemical in the 1990s, MDAI has structural similarities to MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine) and shares its behavioural...
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
August 25, 2012
Fabrizio Schifano, John Corkery, A. Hamid Ghodse
113 citations
BACKGROUND: International media have been reporting about fatalities allegedly related to mephedrone, a popular recreational stimulant, but now a proportion of them have been confirmed. We aimed here at analyzing information relating to the circumstances of mephedrone-related deaths in the United Kingdom. METHODS: Descriptive analysis of information was mainly extracted from the UK National...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
March 30, 2006
Fabrizio Schifano, John Corkery, Paolo Deluca et al.
96 citations
In the last decade, a global trend of escalating ecstasy (MDMA, MDA, MDEA, MBDB) use was observed. Mentions on medical death certificates, last year's ecstasy use, number of drug offenders, seizures, prices and dosage levels figures were used for this descriptive and correlational study. Figures (1994ñ2003) were taken from the UK General Mortality Registers, from the Home Office Statistical...
Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental
September 19, 2003
Fabrizio Schifano, Adenekan Oyefeso, John Corkery et al.
93 citations
Abstract The present study reports on all deaths related to taking ecstasy (alone, or in a polydrug combination) occurring in England and Wales in the time frame August 1996–April 2002. Data presented here are based on all information recorded in the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (np‐SAD) database. The np‐SAD regularly receives all information on drug related deaths in addicts...