What is a design medicine?
The term that has become prominent at the age of 80 is a design drug a type of synthetic drug designed to solve specific laws forbidding certain substances. Design drug usually changes only slightly from the original drug, but so much that existing laws do not specifically prohibit them. Many varieties of design drugs have existed since the beginning of the twentieth century, but in the 70s and 80s. There was a huge increase in the number of existing drugs.
Design drug can be harmful or even fatal for many reasons. First, the designer treatment is designed for an already dangerous medicine that has its own set of health risks. More importantly, design drugs have added synthetic substances that can have their own health risk set. Part of the problem with design drugs is that the person who uses the drug does not know what synthetic chemicals could be added to the substance. Therefore, the user cannot predict how his body can respond to the medicine.
The idea of designer drugs is simple: enjoy a medicine that already exists and change the chemical compound only slightly to create a new drug completely that has not been forbidden to use. This new drug can now be produced and distributed without impact - at least until the regulatory authorities in a particular country have a chance to analyze a new substance and consider it dangerous. Due to the boom of drug production in the late twentieth century, they were banned in many countries.
One of the most famous design drugs - also known as analogues in the scientific community - is China White, which is a heroin replacement. This medicine was different from heroin to escape regulatory laws and to produce cheap. However, the drug had serious side effects and users of the Snake increased risk of fatal overdose and other negative side effects. Another analogue, this of methamphetamine, is ecstasy. Ecstasy causes euphoria and sometimes hallucinations and has onusers an extreme soothing effect. It was first used in scientific and therapeutic communities, but quickly escaped into the world of recreation and was subsequently considered a dangerous and illegal drug.
Due to its illegality, a design drug often finds itself in the black market or on the street. This adds a new element of drug hazard, because the origin of drugs, drug content and price control becomes unknown.