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European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (2010) Risk assessment of new psychoactive substances — operating guidelines. Luxembourg: The Publications Office of the European Union.

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The principal aim of these guidelines is to put in place a sound methodological and procedural basis for carrying out each risk assessment, by using a semi-quantitative assessment procedure. This publication is a revision of the Guidelines for the risk assessment of new synthetic drugs (published in the same series, in 1999).

Table of contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Legal basis and scope
• Chapter 2: General considerations for risk assessment
• Chapter 3: A conceptual framework for risk assessment
• Chapter 4: Headings for the Risk Assessment Report
• Chapter 5: Assessing the risk relative to other substances
• Chapter 1: Conclusion
• References
• Annex I: Technical report
• Annex II: Semi-quantitative assessment procedure
• Annex III: Expert's scoring form
• Appendix: Council Decision 2005/387/JHA


Item Type
Report
Publication Type
Irish-related, International, Guideline, Report
Drug Type
New psychoactive substance
Intervention Type
Harm reduction, Policy
Date
March 2010
Pages
92 p.
Publisher
The Publications Office of the European Union
Corporate Creators
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Place of Publication
Luxembourg
ISBN
978-92-9168-402-1
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Accession Number
HRB 4814 (Available)
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