The diverse reasons for using Novel Psychoactive Substances - A qualitative study of the users' own perspectives

The increasing number of legally ambiguous and precarious Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) constitutes a challenge for policy makers and public health. Scientific and more in-depth knowledge about the motivations for using NPS is scarce and often consist of predetermined, non-systematic, or poorly described reasons deduced from top-down approaches. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to explore and characterize the users ’ self-reported reasons for NPS use inductively and more comprehensively.
Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Research Paper Source Type: research