TECHNICAL NOTE: A2 (N-Benzylpiperazine) a New Drug of Abuse in Sweden

Authors: Wikström M.¹; Holmgren P.¹; Ahlner J.¹

Source: Journal of Analytical Toxicology, Volume 28, Number 1, January/February 2004 , pp. 67-70(4)

Publisher: Preston Publications

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Abstract:

N-Benzylpiperazine was tested in the beginning of the 1970s as a possible antidepressant drug. However, in both animal and human studies, it was shown to possess amphetamine-like properties, and any further studies were stopped. In a forensic autopsy case in 1999, we found a substance so far unknown to us in the chromatogram of our method used for amphetamines. We could swiftly identify this compound as N-benzylpiperazine because of information given to us by a newly formed network comprising, among others, customs and the police. Since then, we have found N-benzylpiperazine in several cases, among them 11 cases from a number of prisons.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: National Board of Forensic Medicine, Department of Forensic Chemistry, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden

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