Giovanni Appendino

Recreational drug discovery: natural products as lead structures for the synthesis of smart drugs

Natural Product Reports 2014 Giovanni Appendino, Alberto Minassi, Orazio Taglialatela‐scafati 65 citations

Covering: up to December 2013. Over the past decade, there has been a growing transition in recreational drugs from natural materials (marijuana, hashish, opium), natural products (morphine, cocaine), or their simple derivatives (heroin), to synthetic agents more potent than their natural prototypes, which are sometimes less harmful in the short term, or that combine properties from different...