Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) are becoming increasingly popular worldwide in recent
years, some of which have been reported to cause considerable harm and even fatalities. …

New psychoactive substances (NPS) emerge continually, amongst which is a growing class
of ketamine analogues with an arylcyclohexylamine backbone. Recently we reported a …

Case series on a diversity of illicit weight‐reducing agents: from the well known to the unexpected
- Tang - 2011 - British Journal of Clinical … Magdalene HY Tang … Magdalene HY Tang …

Rapid oral fluid testing (ROFT) devices have been extensively evaluated for their ability to
detect common drugs of abuse; however, the performance of such devices on simultaneous …

© 2015, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Press. All rights reserved. Objective: To validate
a locally developed chromatography-based method to monitor emerging drugs of abuse …

Ketamine and phencyclidine are well-known drugs of abuse of the arylcyclohexylamine class,
the backbone of which is used for the synthesis of new psychoactive substances (NPS). In …

Context. Sibutramine, or its structurally related analogs, is often found as an adulterant in
proprietary herbal slimming products in Hong Kong. A few solitary case reports of sibutramine-…

Introduction: Non-prescription slimming products are popular and can be easily purchased
from the Internet. However, adulteration of these products with undeclared substances …

Background: New psychoactive substances are constantly evolving structural analogues of
traditional drugs of abuse that have become a threat to public health worldwide and within …

An unidentified substance was detected in these samples by general toxicology screening
using high-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection; further investigations at …