"Steadily increasing since 1990, the use of psychoactive substances was expanded to new designer drugs..."

Rev Med Suisse. 2013 Aug 14;9(394):1454-60.

[Recreational drugs: the complication's pleasure?].

[Article in French]

Joye F, Donzé N, Frochaux V, Niquille M, Selz Amaudruz F.

Source

Département des urgences CHCVs, Hôpital de Sion, Sion. florence.joye@chuv.ch

Abstract

" (bath salts, spice) with so original still unknown pharmacological effects. At the beginning, the pleasure, first feeling, turns sometimes, in acute medical emergency and then, in some cases, in chronic diseases. Side expected or not desired effects, seen in emergency departments could be necrotizing gangrene among consumers Krokodil or dystonic reactions in consumers of Spice. Moreover, adulterants could increase the dangerosity of the substances. Searching a toxidrome helps to find the incrimining substance.