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Editorial
. 2014 Oct;109(10):1577-9.
doi: 10.1111/add.12601. Epub 2014 Jul 1.

Awash in a sea of 'bath salts': implications for biomedical research and public health

Michael H Baumann  1
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Editorial

Awash in a sea of 'bath salts': implications for biomedical research and public health

Michael H Baumann. Addiction. 2014 Oct.
No abstract available

Keywords: Bath salts; MDPV; cathinone; dopamine; mephedrone; methylone; transporter.

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Figure 1
Chemical structures of‘bath salts’ cathinones and their next-generation ‘replacement’ analogs. First-generation ‘bath salts’ cathinones are mephedrone, methylone and MDPV, whereas next-generation ‘replacement’ cathinones are those that appeared in the recreational drug market-place after the 2011 emergency scheduling legislation was enacted in the United States. Mephedrone = 4-methyl-N-methylcathinone; methylone = 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylcathinone; MDPV = 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone; 4-MEC = 4-methyl-N-ethylcathinone; 4-MePPP = 4-methyl-α-pyrrolidinopropiophenone; butylone = β-keto-N-methylbenzodioxolylbutanamine; pentylone = β-keto-methylbenzodioxolylpentanamine; α-PVP = α-pyrrolidinovalerophenone; α-PBP = α-pyrrolidinobutiophenone
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