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Testing For ‘Legal Marijuana,’ ‘Bath Salts’ And Other Emerging Designer Drugs

Scientists have reported development of much needed new tests to help cope with a wave of deaths, emergency room visits and other problems from a new genre of designer drugs sold legally in stores and online that mimic the effects of cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana.

Fewer Meth-Related Visits To Emergency Department Following 2006 ‘anti-Meth’ Legislation

The number of methamphetamine-related emergency room visits decreased significantly in the year following the implementation of Oregon’s law prohibiting the sale of over-the-counter decongestant containing pseudoephedrine, according to Oregon Health & Science Emergency Department physician-researchers…