Long, Jean (2011) Update on new psychoactive substances. Drugnet Ireland, Issue 36, Winter 2010, p. 10.

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EMCDDA risk assessment on mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone)

On 15 July 2010 the EMCDDA extended Scientific Committee, with the participation of additional experts from the EU member states, the European Commission, Europol and the European Medicines Agency, undertook a formal risk assessment on the synthetic drug mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone) and submitted it to the European Commission. The Commission considered the findings, and on 20 October 2010 recommended1 that the Council advise member states

 

...to take the necessary measures, in accordance with their national law, to submit 4-methylmethcathinone (mephedrone) to control measures and criminal penalties as provided for under their legislation by virtue of their obligations under the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

 

Mephedrone was controlled in Ireland in May 2010.2

 

Guide to psychoactive substances

O'Mahony Carey, S (2010) Psychoactive substances: a guide to ethnobotanical plants and herbs, synthetic chemicals, compounds and products. Tipperary: Health Service Executive South. Available at www.drugsandalcohol.ie/ 13725

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