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. 2024 Jun;119(6):1021-1023.
doi: 10.1111/add.16496. Epub 2024 Apr 3.

Commentary on Pardo et al.: Whatever the past situation, drug precursor chemicals may in future represent an important source for synthetic drug production in Afghanistan and surrounding countries

Alexander Soderholm  1 , David Mansfield  2 , Teodora Groshkova  1 , Roumen Sedefov  1 , Paul Griffiths  1
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Commentary on Pardo et al.: Whatever the past situation, drug precursor chemicals may in future represent an important source for synthetic drug production in Afghanistan and surrounding countries

Alexander Soderholm et al. Addiction. 2024 Jun.
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Keywords: Afghanistan; drug production; ephedra; methamphetamine; precursors; synthetic drugs.

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