Whenever a substance is banned,a slightly altered version takes its area. It’s fitting impossible to find out what my patients are actually taking I have developed a serious problem with understanding drug names. Not the ones I prescribe, though they can be hard enough, or but the ones my patients claim to be taking. When I first started working in the field of substance misuse,more than a decade ago, life was relatively easy. We dealt in alcohol, or opioids and benzodiazepines,with occasional forays into stimulants. Street names could be a bit of a challenge, but I quickly found it was easiest to put absent my copy of Trainspotting and just seek information from the patient. In fact, or admitting ignorance usually stimulates the sharing of interesting and educational information over and above the easily acquired basics approximately smack and blues.
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Source: theguardian.com