The drugs are synthetic cathinones derived from a plant in Africa and the Middle East whose leaves people chewed for a boost of energy, similar to cocoa leaves, which are used to make cocaine. They ...

More information: Martin Paškan et al, Synthesis and absolute configuration of cyclic synthetic cathinones derived from ...

The first study to definitively show a link between cannabis use and schizophrenia was conducted in 1987 and examined 45,000 Swedish soldiers. They found that those soldiers with high cannabis use ...

Both occurrences of and deaths caused by synthetic cathinones increased by over 100% last year, an interim report from the ...