title: "New designer drugs" in aspects of forensic toxicology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  In autumn of 2010, in response to an ever-increasing market of "new designer drugs" and in view of new legal regulations, the Sanitary Inspection inspected numerous so-called "smart shops" where such products were sold. In the course of mass inspections, 3545 packages of various preparations were secured on the market in the Malopolska province. A total of 942 preparations were collected for analysis; of this number, 539 were sold as tablets and pills and 403 as plant-derived substances. The objective of the study was to determine potentially psychoactive components of the investigated preparations.
  
  
  METHODS
  The prepared samples were identified by employing an analytical procedure where the analytes were investigated by gas chromatography-electron impact mass spectrometry (GC-EI-MS) and thus a library of mass spectra was created.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The analysis revealed the following substances in the investigated products: piperazine derivatives (BZP, MPMP, TFMPP), cathinone derivatives (N-ethylcathinone, buthylone, ethylone, methylone, buphedrone, flephedrone), pyrovalerone derivatives (MDPV, naphyrone), and synthetic cannabinoids (AM-694, JWH-019, JWH-073, JWH-081, JWH-122, JWH-200, JWH-250).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An unlimited source, i.e. the Internet, continues to provide the worldwide market with preparations of this type and their composition is constantly modified. The scale and complexity of the problem pose a challenge to forensic and clinical toxicology in the field of new designer drugs.
authors.affiliation: Martyna Maciów-Głąb Katedra i Zakład Medycyny Sądowej Uniwersytet Jagielloński - Collegium Medicum ul. Grzegórzecka 16 31-531 Kraków e-mail: martyna.maciow@uj.edu.pl.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maciów-Głąb
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rojek
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kula
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kłys