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New drugs

New psychoactive substances
Analysing the problem

Roumen Sedefov
European Economic and Social Committee, Public Hearing, 27 November 2013
I will ask and maybe answer…

• What are NPS and what do we know about them?
• Why should we be concerned about them?
• What information do we need in order to respond
effectively to them?
From designer drugs to legal highs
How did we get here? The role of globalisation and innovation
The new drug phenomenon in the EU today
Four broad and overlapping groups
• Designer drugs: produced in clandestine labs and
sold on illicit drug market as replacements for
‘ecstasy’ or ‘speed’ or heroin. Users mostly unaware
that they are taking them
• Legal highs: produced by chemical companies and
sold on open market, often as branded products in
sophisticated packaging. Sold on the Internet, in head
shops and by street-level drug dealers
• Dietary supplements: sold on open market aimed
at people going to the gym, looking to loose weight.
Sold on Amazon and eBay
Limited data on toxicity and harms
• Medicines: diverted within Europe or imported
Huge growth in number, type and availability
303 new drugs notified 2005–2013, 67 notified in 2013 so far…

More than 200 have
been notified since
2010
Types of products & users are also broadening
out…
• Traditionally most new drugs were marketed to ‘recreational’ users:
psychonauts, early adopters (dance music fans)
• Diffusion may have then spread to the broader population (e.g.
mephedrone)
• Now seeing both branded and unbranded products used by:
• lifestyle users: gym-goers (‘Craze’, DMAA), weight loss, other
enhancement reasons (phenibut)
• problematic users: IV opioid injectors using stimulants (mephedrone and
MDPV) or fentanyls (ocfentanyl, carfentanyl)
• self-medication (overlap with all user groups): e.g. importation of noncontrolled benzodiazepines from outside EU
Seizures of synthetic cannabinoids
Multi-kilogram quantities usually shipped from China

Amount

Cannabinoid

Date

54 kg

JWH-018 quinolinylcarboxylate derivative

Nov 2012

7 kg

JWH-018 carboxamide derivative

Jul 2012

5 kg

JWH-073

Aug 2012

21 kg

JWH-018 adamantyl carboxamide derivative

Jul 2012

10 kg

5F-UR-144

Jan 2013

20 kg

AM-2201

Jan 2013
Processing and packaging in Europe
Potent synthetic cannabinoids sold as 'herbal' smoking mixtures
Internet shops and bricks and mortar shops
The Internet plays a key role in shaping the market

693 online shops identified in
2012 selling to EU
Lifetime use of 'legal highs' in the EU
15–24 year olds, percentage by country, n > 12000

In certain countries some new substances that imitate the
effects of illicit drugs are being sold as legal substances in the
form of - for example - powders, tablets/pills or herbs. Have
you ever used such substances?
Mephedrone…
Last year use in the United Kingdom

2010/11:
Ages 16-24: 4.4% ~ cocaine, the second
most used drug
Ages 16-59: 1.4% ~ ecstasy, the third
most used drug
2011/12:
Ages 16-24: 3.3% ~ ecstasy, the third
most used drug
Ages 16-59: 1.1%
Do NPS have other uses?
Examples…

• Medicines: phenazepam, GHB, pregabalin, etizolam, carfentanil, ketamine
• Intermediates for synthesis of API: mCPP, 2-AI, other?
(both groups excluded from risk assessment and control at EU level)
• Industrial chemicals: GBL, 1,4 BD
• Scientific research & developmental, potential medicines?
Detecting and responding to harms
EWS is an event-based monitoring system allowing early detection of signals of harm
4-MA and 5-IT: risk assessed in 2013 and subject to
controls
25I-NBOMe: phenethylamine, often sold as LSD, large seizures of
blotters, seizures of bulk powders (China)
• Identified in 14 countries, 30+ non-fatal intoxications reported,
some very serious
AH-7921: synthetic opioid, sold as ‘research chemical’
• Identified in 6 countries, 10 deaths reported
MDPV: synthetic cathinone, sold as ‘legal high’, ‘research chemical’,
and on illicit drug market
• Identified in 17 countries, large seizures, 40 deaths reported
Methoxetamine: ketamine derivative, sold as ‘legal high’, ’research
chemical’ and on illicit market as ketamine
• Identified in 12 countries, 9 deaths reported
Knowledge gaps and areas that require
strengthening
• Toxicovigilance: acute emergencies, poisons centres, deaths
• Better epidemiological data across the board
• Better understanding of motives of use and models of diffusion potential
and interplay with illicit drug market
• Internet monitoring
• Better detail on major production sites and seizures
• Producer countries and trends in production
• Availability and trends at global level
EMCDDA
EWS@emcdda.europa.eu
www.emcdda.europa.eu/drug-situation/new-drugs

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New psychoactive substances - analysing the problem

  • 1. New drugs New psychoactive substances Analysing the problem Roumen Sedefov European Economic and Social Committee, Public Hearing, 27 November 2013
  • 2. I will ask and maybe answer… • What are NPS and what do we know about them? • Why should we be concerned about them? • What information do we need in order to respond effectively to them?
  • 3. From designer drugs to legal highs How did we get here? The role of globalisation and innovation
  • 4. The new drug phenomenon in the EU today Four broad and overlapping groups • Designer drugs: produced in clandestine labs and sold on illicit drug market as replacements for ‘ecstasy’ or ‘speed’ or heroin. Users mostly unaware that they are taking them • Legal highs: produced by chemical companies and sold on open market, often as branded products in sophisticated packaging. Sold on the Internet, in head shops and by street-level drug dealers • Dietary supplements: sold on open market aimed at people going to the gym, looking to loose weight. Sold on Amazon and eBay Limited data on toxicity and harms • Medicines: diverted within Europe or imported
  • 5. Huge growth in number, type and availability 303 new drugs notified 2005–2013, 67 notified in 2013 so far… More than 200 have been notified since 2010
  • 6. Types of products & users are also broadening out… • Traditionally most new drugs were marketed to ‘recreational’ users: psychonauts, early adopters (dance music fans) • Diffusion may have then spread to the broader population (e.g. mephedrone) • Now seeing both branded and unbranded products used by: • lifestyle users: gym-goers (‘Craze’, DMAA), weight loss, other enhancement reasons (phenibut) • problematic users: IV opioid injectors using stimulants (mephedrone and MDPV) or fentanyls (ocfentanyl, carfentanyl) • self-medication (overlap with all user groups): e.g. importation of noncontrolled benzodiazepines from outside EU
  • 7. Seizures of synthetic cannabinoids Multi-kilogram quantities usually shipped from China Amount Cannabinoid Date 54 kg JWH-018 quinolinylcarboxylate derivative Nov 2012 7 kg JWH-018 carboxamide derivative Jul 2012 5 kg JWH-073 Aug 2012 21 kg JWH-018 adamantyl carboxamide derivative Jul 2012 10 kg 5F-UR-144 Jan 2013 20 kg AM-2201 Jan 2013
  • 8. Processing and packaging in Europe Potent synthetic cannabinoids sold as 'herbal' smoking mixtures
  • 9. Internet shops and bricks and mortar shops The Internet plays a key role in shaping the market 693 online shops identified in 2012 selling to EU
  • 10. Lifetime use of 'legal highs' in the EU 15–24 year olds, percentage by country, n > 12000 In certain countries some new substances that imitate the effects of illicit drugs are being sold as legal substances in the form of - for example - powders, tablets/pills or herbs. Have you ever used such substances?
  • 11. Mephedrone… Last year use in the United Kingdom 2010/11: Ages 16-24: 4.4% ~ cocaine, the second most used drug Ages 16-59: 1.4% ~ ecstasy, the third most used drug 2011/12: Ages 16-24: 3.3% ~ ecstasy, the third most used drug Ages 16-59: 1.1%
  • 12. Do NPS have other uses? Examples… • Medicines: phenazepam, GHB, pregabalin, etizolam, carfentanil, ketamine • Intermediates for synthesis of API: mCPP, 2-AI, other? (both groups excluded from risk assessment and control at EU level) • Industrial chemicals: GBL, 1,4 BD • Scientific research & developmental, potential medicines?
  • 13. Detecting and responding to harms EWS is an event-based monitoring system allowing early detection of signals of harm 4-MA and 5-IT: risk assessed in 2013 and subject to controls 25I-NBOMe: phenethylamine, often sold as LSD, large seizures of blotters, seizures of bulk powders (China) • Identified in 14 countries, 30+ non-fatal intoxications reported, some very serious AH-7921: synthetic opioid, sold as ‘research chemical’ • Identified in 6 countries, 10 deaths reported MDPV: synthetic cathinone, sold as ‘legal high’, ‘research chemical’, and on illicit drug market • Identified in 17 countries, large seizures, 40 deaths reported Methoxetamine: ketamine derivative, sold as ‘legal high’, ’research chemical’ and on illicit market as ketamine • Identified in 12 countries, 9 deaths reported
  • 14. Knowledge gaps and areas that require strengthening • Toxicovigilance: acute emergencies, poisons centres, deaths • Better epidemiological data across the board • Better understanding of motives of use and models of diffusion potential and interplay with illicit drug market • Internet monitoring • Better detail on major production sites and seizures • Producer countries and trends in production • Availability and trends at global level