- Tytuł:
- New psychoactive substances. The phenomenon development and the institutional and legal mechanisms for its prevention
- Autorzy:
- Semków, Dorota
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/451647.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2019
- Wydawca:
- Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
- Tematy:
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new psychoactive substances
new drugs
smart
legal highs
herbal highs
boosters
prevention
legal regulations
criminogenic factors - Opis:
- The phenomenon observed in many countries for many years is an attempt to bypass the law by launching psychoactive substances on the market whose possession and sale is not regulated by the existing drug law. The number of chemically and biologically modified substances is dramatically increasing and the substances themselves are increasingly stronger and threatening people’s health and lives. Issues relating to the occurrence of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are the subject of increasingly in-depth analyses. In connection with the steadily increasing number of NPS and their substantial availability, there are more and more doubts about the effectiveness of the model adopted in earlier years in Europe and in individual countries, whose purpose is to subject new psychoactive substances to legal control. Based on the information presented in the article, one can assume that the reason for the development of new psychoactive substances to date was, on the one hand, the weakness of the legal regulations in force, both national and international, and on the other, specialized technical and chemical capabilities of manufacturers. Another thesis that can be put in the context of the studied subject is the statement that the phenomenon of new psychoactive substances has a high criminogenic susceptibility and is a decisively negative phenomenon, classified as the pathology of social life. In view of the above, the activities of prevention, detection and control of new psychoactive substances are important in the process of effective fight against NPS. The article does not constitute a comprehensive and complex overview of what NPS are. The aim of the study is a multifaceted analysis of the phenomenon of such substances, which will allow for a deeper understanding of the causes of such a wide scale of NPS, their diversity and ease of accessibility. Considering the above, the article attempts to stress the priority issues according to the article’s author and which are crucial in the process of universally understood NPS prevention – i.e. international cooperation, national legal regulations, and chemical analyses conducted in forensic laboratories.
- Źródło:
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Journal of Modern Science; 2019, 40, 1; 45-64
1734-2031 - Pojawia się w:
- Journal of Modern Science
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki