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- Designer Drugs
Designer Drugs(Topical Term)
Used for/see from:
- Customized Drug
- Customized Drugs
- Designer Drug
- n: Drug, Customized
- n: Drug, Designer
- n: Drugs, Customized
- n: Drugs, Designer
coordinate with specific drug or chemical; do not confuse with DRUG DESIGN
Drugs designed and synthesized, often for illegal street use, by modification of existing drug structures (e.g., amphetamines). Of special interest are MPTP (a reverse ester of meperidine), MDA (3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine), and MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine). Many drugs act on the aminergic system, the physiologically active biogenic amines.
1989