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This book provides a broad reference covering important drugs of abuse including amphetamines, opiates, and steroids. It also covers psychoactive plants such as caffeine, peyote, and psilocybin. It provides chemical structures, analytical methods, clinical features, and treatments of these drugs of abuse, serving as a highly useful, in-depth supplement to a general medical toxicology book. The style allows for the easy application of the contents to searchable databases and other electronic products, making this an essential resource for practitioners in medical toxicology, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, pharmaceuticals, environmental organizations, pathology, and related fields. Synthetic and Semisynthetic Chemicals Amphetamines and Phenethylamine Derivatives Club Drugs Eating Disorders and Appetite Suppressants Ergogenic Agents and Supplements Ethanol Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Older Sedative Hypnotic Drugs Opioids Phencyclidine Volatile Substances of Abuse Anesthetics Fluorinated Alkanes Industrial Hydrocarbons Nitrogen Compounds Psychoactive Plants Absinthe Ayahuasca, Harmala Alkaloids, and Dimethyltryptamines Betel Quid and Areca Nut Caffeine Cocaine Ibogaine (Tabernanthe iboga Baill.) Khat (Catha edulis (Vahl) Forsskal ex Endl.) and Cathinone Kratom [Mitragyna speciosa (Korth.) Havil.] Marijuana (Cannabis sativa L.) and Synthetic Cannabinoids Mate Tea (Ilex paraguariensis A. St. Hil.) Morning Glory Family (Convolvulaceae) Peyote [Lophophora williamsii (Lem. Ex Salm-Dyck) Coult.] and Mescaline Psilocybin and Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Salvia divinorum Epling & Jativa and Salvinorin A Tobacco, Nicotine, and Pituri