Weekly Dose: new drug MDPV, or 'monkey dust', found in Australia. What is it and what are the harms?
- Written by Samuel Banister, Team Leader in Medicinal Chemistry, University of Sydney
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Recent media reports have suggested a rise in a dangerous new party drug known as “monkey dust”. This is a slang name for the drug MDPV (3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone), as well as other members of the chemical class known as “synthetic cathinones”, or...