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Methylone consumption characterized through samples handled by users

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

L. Martínez Sadurní ,
M. Grifell ,
L. Galindo ,
I. Ezquiaga ,
P. Quintana ,
M. Ventura ,
I. Fornís ,
Á. Palma ,
M. Angelats  and
E. Ribera
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L. Martínez Sadurní*
Affiliation:
Institut de Neuropsiquiatria i Addiccions, Parc de Salut Mar, Psychiatry, Barcelona, Spain
M. Grifell
Affiliation:
Institut de Neuropsiquiatria i Addiccions, Parc de Salut Mar, IMIM, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Psychiatry, Barcelona, Spain
L. Galindo
Affiliation:
Institut de Neuropsiquiatria i Addiccions, Parc de Salut Mar, IMIM, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Psychiatry, Barcelona, Spain
I. Ezquiaga
Affiliation:
Institut de Neuropsiquiatria i Addiccions, Parc de Salut Mar, Psychiatry, Barcelona, Spain
P. Quintana
Affiliation:
Energy Control, Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo, Primary care medicine, Barcelona, Spain
M. Ventura
Affiliation:
Energy Control, Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo, Energy Control, Barcelona, Spain
I. Fornís
Affiliation:
Energy Control, Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo, Energy Control, Barcelona, Spain
Á. Palma
Affiliation:
Institut de Neuropsiquiatria i Addiccions, Parc de Salut Mar, IMIM, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Psychiatry, Barcelona, Spain
M. Angelats
Affiliation:
Institut de Neuropsiquiatria i Addiccions, Parc de Salut Mar, Psychiatry, Barcelona, Spain
E. Ribera
Affiliation:
Institut de Neuropsiquiatria i Addiccions, Parc de Salut Mar, Psychiatry, Barcelona, Spain
M. Torrens
Affiliation:
Institut de Neuropsiquiatria i Addiccions, Parc de Salut Mar, IMIM, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Psychiatry, Barcelona, Spain
M. Farré
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitari Germans Trías i Pujol, IGTP, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Pharmacology, Barcelona, Spain
*
* Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

In recent years, the increasing use tendency of NPS has motivated both awareness and concern about their identification and potential harmfulness. Synthetic cathinones represent a significant proportion of the NPS available and methylone is one of the most frequently found in Europe.

Objectives

The aim of the present study is to determine methylone presence and characteristics from the samples analyzed by Energy Control between the years 2009 and 2015 in Spain.

Methods

From all 21,198 samples analyzed from august 2009 to august 2015, only those in which methylone was found are studied (n = 140). The samples have been analyzed by Energy Control, a spanish harm-reduction NGO that offers to users the possibility of analyzing the substances they intend to consume. The analysis is done by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry.

Results

From the 140 samples containing methylone, 87 were handled as methylone, 20 as MDMA, 8 as other synthetic cathinones and 25 as other substances. The peak of consume was registered in 2011 with 41 samples then the number decreased until 10 samples in 2015.

Conclusions

Results suggest that methylone is most frequently handled as methylone or as MDMA and that its consumption could be decreasing. Further pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, clinical and epidemiological studies should be conducted to enhance the knowledge not only about methylone consumption, but also about synthetic cathinones in general in order to assess their potential risk and study the complications and its management.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S117
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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