Comparison of the new law on the control of psychotropic substances (NPS) (Systematic review of the actions of 13 leading countries in dealing with new psychotropic substances)

The emergence and prevalence of new psychotropic substances that are not on the list of 1961 and 1971 Drugs and Psychotropic Conventions has become a new challenge for governments to combat their production, sale and consumption. Different countries have defined the legal status of some new psychotropic substances in their domestic laws. This study provides an overview of the new psychotropic control laws adopted in different countries.

This research was carried out by using descriptive library and systematic review in the period 1980 to 2019 (1358 to 1398) This study included all articles published in Cochrane database systematic electronic databases, Google Scholar, Em base, Medline, Scopus, reviews,

In recent decades, three UN conventions have been considered as the basis of commitments and international cooperation of member states. Despite the establishment of an early warning system at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, no international consensus has been reached on the legal control of new psychotropic substances. The type of these substances vary in different countries. Legislative bodies of different countries have determined the legal conditions of new types of psychotropic substances in their country by creating special legal lists, group control, analog control and temporary control.

Despite the creation of new laws against new psychotropic substances in most developed and developing countries, it is necessary due to the increasing number of new psychotropic substances and the risk of their abuse, Iran is also one of the methods of legal control of new psychotropic substances