{"id":5782,"date":"2010-01-24T22:04:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T22:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=5782"},"modified":"2016-06-30T16:45:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T16:45:51","slug":"legal-stimulant-mephedrone-gains-popularity-as-club-drug-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2010\/01\/legal-stimulant-mephedrone-gains-popularity-as-club-drug-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Stimulant Mephedrone Gains Popularity as Club Drug in U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><br \/>\nMephedrone &#8212; a stimulant that is currently legal in both the U.K. and the U.S. &#8212; has gained recent and surprising popularity among club-goers in the U.K., according to Britain&#8217;s National Addiction Center.<br \/>\nThe BBC reported Jan. 14 that the drug, also known as meph, 4-MMC, MCAT, Drone, Meow or Bubbles, was the fourth-most popular drug cited by readers of Mixmag, a popular British dance magazine.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s come from nowhere to become very popular,&#8221; said researcher Adam Winstock. &#8220;For a drug that&#8217;s been around for a relatively short amount of time, mephedrone has certainly made a big impact on the dance drug scene.&#8221;<br \/>\nUsers describe the drug&#8217;s high as falling somewhere between that of ecstasy and cocaine. The drug is sold legally in the U.K. as a plant food; it is a powder that can be taken in pill form, snorted, mixed with liquid or even injected.<br \/>\nSide effects include headaches, heart palpitations, and nausea.<br \/>\n<em>Source: BBC 14th Jan 2010<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mephedrone &#8212; a stimulant that is currently legal in both the U.K. and the U.S. &#8212; has gained recent and surprising popularity among club-goers in the U.K., according to Britain&#8217;s National Addiction Center. The BBC reported Jan. 14 that the drug, also known as meph, 4-MMC, MCAT, Drone, Meow or Bubbles, was the fourth-most popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-specifics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}