Hi all
I’m a researcher at the University of Tasmania, Australia. In collaboration with people at the University of Queensland (Phong Thai, Wayne Hall, Coral Gartner, Foon Yin Lai & Jochen Mueller), we’re looking for people to contribute to a study aiming to understand the metabolism of ‘research chemicals’. By ‘research chemicals’ we’re referring to any of the new substances on the market, like MDPV, 4-FMC, and methoxetamine, among others.
We know very little about how this broad range drugs affect the body, because they have not undergone any of the traditional tests that you would see in the development of medications for human consumption. One of the key processes to understand is the way that these drugs are metabolised by the body: usually after consumption, drugs will be transformed inside the body and eliminated (excreted), mainly through urine. Understanding how the drug is metabolised is important for many reasons: it can be used to help develop methods to determine what drug a person has consumed by analyzing the chemicals that are excreted in urine or present in blood samples. This has clinical applications such as determining what drugs have been consumed in the event of an adverse reaction. Another particularly important reason is that the metabolites may potentially also be active in the body and have the potential to cause health harms directly or by interacting with other drugs or medications.
We’re looking for people to help us work this out by providing a urine sample after they’ve taken any of these new substances. This can all be done through the post and your confidentiality can be maintained. Sampling containers and reply paid envelopes can be mailed out to you, and there is a very short survey (probably taking 2 minutes or so to do) to complete to describe the drug taken and some general health information. This can be done online, and is submitted separately from the sample.
To find out more about the study and the steps we’ve put in place to maintain confidentiality, please see the following: https://surveys.psychol.utas.edu.au/index.php?sid=46955&lang=en
The study began in April, 2012, and will be open for several months at least. The study has received ethical approval from the University of Queensland Medical Research Ethics Committee, Project 2011001399.
If you have any questions, you can contact me at [email protected] . If you have specific technical questions about the analytical chemistry, Phong Thai ([email protected] ) is the person in charge of the actual fun part of doing the analyses.
Thanks for your time in reading this!
Raimondo Bruno
[UPDATE] - After a very kind offer of an international bluelighter to donate a sample we made a few furious calls to customs and unfortunately international shipments of urine won't work - primarily because they'd need to be quarrantined for quite some time which would make them too old to analyse.
I’m a researcher at the University of Tasmania, Australia. In collaboration with people at the University of Queensland (Phong Thai, Wayne Hall, Coral Gartner, Foon Yin Lai & Jochen Mueller), we’re looking for people to contribute to a study aiming to understand the metabolism of ‘research chemicals’. By ‘research chemicals’ we’re referring to any of the new substances on the market, like MDPV, 4-FMC, and methoxetamine, among others.
We know very little about how this broad range drugs affect the body, because they have not undergone any of the traditional tests that you would see in the development of medications for human consumption. One of the key processes to understand is the way that these drugs are metabolised by the body: usually after consumption, drugs will be transformed inside the body and eliminated (excreted), mainly through urine. Understanding how the drug is metabolised is important for many reasons: it can be used to help develop methods to determine what drug a person has consumed by analyzing the chemicals that are excreted in urine or present in blood samples. This has clinical applications such as determining what drugs have been consumed in the event of an adverse reaction. Another particularly important reason is that the metabolites may potentially also be active in the body and have the potential to cause health harms directly or by interacting with other drugs or medications.
We’re looking for people to help us work this out by providing a urine sample after they’ve taken any of these new substances. This can all be done through the post and your confidentiality can be maintained. Sampling containers and reply paid envelopes can be mailed out to you, and there is a very short survey (probably taking 2 minutes or so to do) to complete to describe the drug taken and some general health information. This can be done online, and is submitted separately from the sample.
To find out more about the study and the steps we’ve put in place to maintain confidentiality, please see the following: https://surveys.psychol.utas.edu.au/index.php?sid=46955&lang=en
The study began in April, 2012, and will be open for several months at least. The study has received ethical approval from the University of Queensland Medical Research Ethics Committee, Project 2011001399.
If you have any questions, you can contact me at [email protected] . If you have specific technical questions about the analytical chemistry, Phong Thai ([email protected] ) is the person in charge of the actual fun part of doing the analyses.
Thanks for your time in reading this!
Raimondo Bruno
[UPDATE] - After a very kind offer of an international bluelighter to donate a sample we made a few furious calls to customs and unfortunately international shipments of urine won't work - primarily because they'd need to be quarrantined for quite some time which would make them too old to analyse.
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But I'm sure people would like cash just the same.