The drug market has seen a significant global expansion in the last decades. The synthetic designer drugs belonging to the class of amphetamines and derived phenylethylamines have experienced the greatest spread in the drug market for abuse. As phenylethylamines are organic compounds that stimulate the central nervous system of humans, many are abused as recreational drugs. A large array of...
In the early 2010s, a new group of illicit psychedelic phenethylamines was reported by the law enforcement agencies, namely the NBOMe hallucinogens. The latter seem to be sold on the black market as an alternative to LSD, due to their powerful psychoactive effects. The goal of this study was to develop an optimized Artificial Neural Network (ANN) able to classify NBOMe hallucinogens based on...