Аннотация:
The growing popularity of designer drugs is a serious problem of modern society. The aim of this paper is to analyse the prevalence of a separate group of synthetic drugs – synthetic cathinones in the northern districts of the Arkhangelsk region in the period from 2018 to 2022. The article presents the results of the study of biological data by gas chromatography with mass-selective detection of 1448 people aged 10 to 84 years. The sex and age composition of psychoactive substance users was determined, and the trends of increasing levels of psychoactive substance use in the north of the region with the predominant use of synthetic cathinones were established. In the group of synthetic cathinones, the dominant abuse of α-PVP was identified. Trends in the expansion of the range of consumption of the group of synthetic cathinones have been recorded. The data presented allow us to speak of a trend towards an impressive increase in the popularity of designer drugs in the region, with a simultaneous increase in the use of traditional drugs and medicines used for non-medical purposes. There is no substitution of «classic» drugs by synthetic drugs in the region, which does not correspond to the trends in Russia and in the world.
Ключевые слова:
designer drugs, synthetic drugs, salts, alpha pyrrolidinopentiophenone, α-PVP, mephedrone, methcathinone, methylenedioxypyrovalerone, MDPV.