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The NPS Crisis in British Prisons
Published in Ornella Corazza, Andres Roman-Urrestarazu, Handbook of Novel Psychoactive Substances, 2018
Shanna Marrinan, Giuseppe Bersani, Ornella Corazza
Because SCRAs are powerfully active in such small quantities, they are also easily concealed in bodily cavities and clothing for import into prisons. In addition to the more established modes of bringing drugs into prisons, the colourless liquid is sometimes sprayed onto letters sent in to prisoners, where it is then ripped into small squares and smoked with tobacco (Ford & Berg, 2018). There has been analytical confirmation of letters impregnated with NPS such as ethylphenidate, methiopropamine and methoxiphenidaine, the sedative etizolam, and the third-generation synthetic cannabinoids 5F-AKB-48, AB-FUBINACA, MDMB-CHMICA (Ford & Berg, 2018). The substances are not easily detected by sniffer dogs, personal searches, or visual inspections of items sent in (CSJ Report, 2015; UNODC, 2017; Kalk et al., 2016).
Acute toxicity following analytically confirmed use of the novel psychoactive substance (NPS) methiopropamine. A report from the Identification of Novel psychoActive substances (IONA) study
Published in Clinical Toxicology, 2019
Joanna C. White, David M. Wood, Simon L. Hill, Michael Eddleston, Jane Officer, Paul I. Dargan, Michael Dunn, Simon H.L. Thomas
Although methiopropamine had been available online from UK-based Internet sites [8], there are no published data available on the prevalence of use of methiopropamine from population or sub-population surveys in the UK or elsewhere. Its use in the UK had been confirmed by the detection in pooled street urinal samples in London from March 2012 until June 2017 and other UK cities in April 2014 [9–12]. The UK National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (NPSAD) reported that methiopropamine was found in 16 post-mortem analyses in 2015, and thought to be implicated in the cause of death in six of these [13]. Methiopropamine was also reported in an Australian fatality in 2015 [14]. There are limited published data on acute methiopropamine toxicity – there have been only two previous reports of patients with acute recreational drug toxicity where methiopropamine was detected analytically [15,16]. Here we describe a case series of 11 patients with analytically confirmed methiopropamine use.