In clandestine laboratories there are those who play with chemistry but above all with lives. Those of those who, even on the Island, end up in emergency rooms: " Strokes, cardiac arrests, cerebral degeneration ", a consequence of the consumption of psychoactive substances. "Patients who present with effects not attributable to known substances ". And for doctors it becomes complicated to trace the components of the chemical mixes and therefore set up an adequate therapy.
«And yes, we are also recording the phenomenon in Sardinia, especially among young people between 15 and 19 years old »: the pharmacologist Maria Antonietta De Luca, who teaches Toxicology and Pharmacotherapy and toxicology of drugs and substances of abuse, monitors and studies the new psychoactive substances with her work group in the halls of the University Citadel of Monserrato. « A single intake can prove to be very harmful ».
There are 930 new synthetic molecules that have appeared in Europe and many of these are spreading across the Island . New and old synthetic substances, a mix that can cause "irreversible damage"
The names and colors are catchy , science divides them into four large groups : they are hallucinogens (such as ketamine), synthetic cannabinoids, synthetic opioids and cathinones, always synthetic (the latter 50 to 100 times more powerful than cocaine), in jargon "bath salts". The latest arrests and seizures of disco drugs, of the movida, in the operation of the Investigative Nucleus of the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri of Cagliari are a terminal of the phenomenon. As well as the pink cocaine bags found, always in the Cagliari area, during the searches, and examined in the laboratories of the RIS.