Entactogen
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2010
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Abstract
Entactogens are drugs, including MDMA (Ecstasy) and other MDxx structure compounds, that cause distinctive prosocial, emotional, and sensory effects in users. Most of them are substituted amphetamine compounds of the phenethylamine class. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
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Drugs, Amphetamines, Organic compounds, Humans, Receptors, Behavior
Citation
Callaghan, P. D., McGregor, I. S., & Thompson, M. R. (2010). Entactogen. In: Stolerman, I. P. (ed) Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, (pp. 482). doi:10.1007/978-3-540-68706-1_1357