Psychoactive Substances

Legal and illegal psychoactive compounds that alter brain function, leading to changes in perception, mood, consciousness, and behaviour.  

Nonmedical Benzodiazepines in Canada

Report
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The Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (CCENDU), co-ordinated by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), publishes this newsletter regularly to inform people living in Canada about emerging substance use...
CCENDU

The anomalous pharmacology of fentanyl

Scientific article
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Fentanyl is a key therapeutic, used in anaesthesia and pain management. It is alsoincreasingly used illicitly and is responsible for a large and growing number of opioidoverdose deaths, especially in North America. A number of factors have...

A Perspective on Psychedelics as Treatments for Addictions

Scientific article
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Psychedelics have been used across different cultures for thousands of years, with historical evidence of substances like ayahuasca in South America, mescaline from cacti in North and South America, and ibogaine in West Africa. Despite this...