An illegally manufactured chemical whose molecular structure is altered slightly from a parent compound to enhance specific effects. Examples include DMT, DMA, DOM, MDA and MDMA (ecstasy).
a psychoactive drug deliberately synthesized to avoid anti-drug laws; mimics the effects of a banned drug; law was revised in 1986 to ban designer drugs
an analog, a chemical compound that is similar in structure and effect to another drug of abuse but differs slightly in structure
a synthetic or lab-produced analog of an FDA-controlled prescription drug, closely resembling the structure of the parent drug, differing in some instances by just a few atoms
Any drug that is designed to match a client’s desired effect and manufactured by chemists in illicit laboratories. Ecstasy and methamphetamine are examples.
an analog of a restricted drug that has psychoactive properties.
A synthetic analog of a restricted drug that has psychoactive properties.
Designer drug is a term used to describe psychoactive drugs which are created (or marketed, if they had already existed) to get around existing drug laws by modifying their molecular structures to varying degrees.