What is a new psychoactive substance?

New psychoactive substances are also called "third generation drugs". (The first generation drugs refer to traditional drugs such as heroin, marijuana and cocaine, and the second generation drugs refer to synthetic drugs such as ice and K powder. )

Many new psychoactive substances have stronger toxicological effects than traditional drugs such as heroin and morphine. For example, the efficacy of U-47700 in China is about 7.5 times that of morphine.

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A small amount of new psychoactive substances can cause acute poisoning symptoms such as accelerated heartbeat, elevated blood pressure and liver and kidney failure. After taking a large number of drugs, it will cause paranoia, anxiety, panic, paranoia and other reactions, and even lead to insanity, even convulsions, shock and stroke, and its harm is 1000 times that of the first generation drugs.

New psychoactive substances are mainly excited and hallucinated by the central nervous system. Therefore, in the case of acute poisoning after abuse, the main manifestations are uncontrollable excitement, irritability, impulsiveness and promiscuity, which leads to the infection and spread of infectious diseases such as sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS and hepatitis.

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