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Legal highs: the dark side of medicinal chemistry

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Synthetic chemist David Nichols describes how his research on psychedelic compounds has been abused — with fatal consequences.

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David Nichols is the Robert C. and Charlotte P. Anderson Distinguished Chair of Pharmacology at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. e-mail: drdave@purdue.edu

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Nichols, D. Legal highs: the dark side of medicinal chemistry. Nature 469, 7 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/469007a

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