Fayixue Zazhi (Jun 2024)

Research Progress on Detection of New Psychoactive Substance Piperazines in vivo

  • LIU Jin-ting,
  • ZHOU Li-ying,
  • XIANG Jia-hong,
  • LI Zi-yi,
  • XIE Wan-ting,
  • YUN Ke-ming,
  • SHI Yan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12116/j.issn.1004-5619.2023.330802
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 40, no. 3
pp. 276 – 283

Abstract

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Piperazines are a class of new psychoactive substances with hallucinogenic effects that affect the central nervous system by affecting the level of monoamine neurotransmitters. Abuse of piperazines will produce stimulating and hallucinogenic effects, accompanied by headache, dizziness, anxiety, insomnia, vomiting, chest pain, tachycardia, hypertension and other adverse reactions, and may even cause cardiovascular diseases and multiple organ failure and lead to death, seriously affecting human physical and mental health and public safety. The abuse of new psychoactive substance piperazines has attracted extensive attention from the international community. The study of its pharmacological toxicology and analytical methods has become a research hotspot in the field of forensic medicine. This paper reviews the in vivo processes, sample treatment and analytical methods of existing piperazines, in order to provide reference for forensic identification.

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