“…With increased availability, harms have increased, such as acute, sometimes fatal, poisonings (Chiappini et al, ; Loi et al, ; Dines et al, ; Zawilska & Andrzejczak, ; Bersani et al, ; Schifano et al, ), harms associated with injecting drugs (Hope et al, ), and the possibility to develop psychiatric symptoms (Martinotti et al, ; Martinotti et al, ; Bersani et al, ). Beside acute toxicological effects, many NPS seem to have addictive properties (Miliano et al, ). In addition to the “classical” NPS, which are classified into known classes of compounds (i.e., cathinones, cannabinoids, phenethylamines, opioids, tryptamines, benzodiazepines, and dissociative anesthetics), law enforcements carry out seizures of compounds that are not classified into these groups of molecules and which are labeled as “other substances” (EMCDDA, ).…”