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Article: They're synthetic. They're clandestine. They can heal. They can kill.(amphetamine-type stimulants)
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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The ancient Greek word pharmakon meant both medicine and poison. It was the quantity, dose and pattern of use which determined the difference between one and the other, between use and abuse, recalls Sandeep Chawla, Senior Research Coordinator, UNDCP, in this contribution to the Chronicle.
Today, astonishing changes, many of them largely unnoticed, are taking place in the grey world of drag trafficking and abuse. The most significant of these is probably the emergence of clandestine synthetic drugs as a global problem. Recognition of this problem has long been delayed by control systems, national and international, which are mesmerized by the three "classical", ...