Butylone

The 'legal highs' readily available, products containing psychoactive substances such as cathinone, piperazines and synthetic cannabinoids, are consumed by young people in Poland and in the world as alternatives to conventional drugs such as amphetamines or marijuana . Most of these hazardous substances are still legal and they are at risk of severe poisoning or even connected to death, and offer new challenges in the practice of clinical and forensic toxicology. Investigations in the field of "synthetic drugs" may also be the case of a suicide of a man of 21 years who represented received a fixed dose of a preparation called "Amphi-bi-a", which contains BK- MBDB, chemically 2-methylamino-1 - (3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl) butane-1-one, which belongs to the category as a synthetic cathinone empathogen euphoric and psychoactive stimulant that is chemically similar to MDMA. It is one of the most common components of 'legal highs' studied in Poland and other countries. The documentation of the case includes a clinical assessment performed during its nearly 4 hours of patient health hospitalization before death, autopsy and histological supported by the results of toxicological examinations BK-MBDB at extremely high concentrations (to 20 mg / l found in the blood and 33 mg / kg in the liver); therefore transmits these references to knowledge in the field of "synthetic drugs". Inventions by designers of new foreign substance that are in high demand, especially for dynamic Internet marketing has narcobusiness drums must be compensated by a national strategy that develops medical, legal and educational in the modern world civilized, to prevent the spread of the phenomenon.