The e-Psychonauts’ ‘Spiced’ World; Assessment of the Synthetic Cannabinoids’ Information Available Online
| العنوان: | The e-Psychonauts’ ‘Spiced’ World; Assessment of the Synthetic Cannabinoids’ Information Available Online |
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| المؤلفون: | Davide Arillotta, Fabrizio Schifano, Liam Gilgar, John Corkery, Flavia Napoletano, Caroline Zangani, Amira Guirguis, Orsola Gambini, Alessandro Vento |
| المصدر: | Current Neuropharmacology |
| بيانات النشر: | Bentham Science Publishers, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Psychonauts, Computer science, Large range, Crawling, NPS, Article, Social Networking, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Synthetic cannabinoids, medicine, Humans, Pharmacology (medical), web crawling, Pharmacology, Internet, Cannabinoids, Illicit Drugs, Multidisciplinary Collaboration, General Medicine, Data science, 030227 psychiatry, Clinical neurology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Neurology, new psychoactive substances, Neurology (clinical), Web crawler, synthetic cannabinoids, Social Media, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, medicine.drug |
| الوصف: | Background: A wide range of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) is regularly searched and discussed online by web-based drug enthusiasts (i.e. the e-psychonauts). Among NPS, the range of synthetic cannabinoids (SC; ‘Spice’) currently represents a challenge for governments and clinicians. Methods: Using a web crawler (i.e. the NPS.Finder®), the present study aimed at assessing psychonauts’ fora/platforms to better understand the online mentions of SC. Results: The open-web crawling/navigating software identified here some 1,103 synthetic cannabinoids. Of these, 863 molecules were not listed in either the international or the European NPS databases. Conclusions: A web crawling approach helped here in identifying a large range of unknown SC likely to possess a misuse potential. Most of these novel/emerging molecules are still relatively unknown. This is a reason for concern; each of these analogues potentially presents different toxicodynamic profiles and there is a lack of docking, preclinical, and clinical observations. Strengthening multidisciplinary collaboration between clinicians and bioinformatics may prove useful in better assessing SC-associated public health risks. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1875-6190 1570-159X |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::aeddaa03af2744151a71c4f29c6c7dc7 http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7709145 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....aeddaa03af2744151a71c4f29c6c7dc7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 18756190 1570159X |
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