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ArticleNature reviews. Neuroscience2013

Effects of Schedule I drug laws on neuroscience research and treatment innovation.

David J Nutt, Leslie A King, David E Nichols

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Article in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 98 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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98citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
30.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

98 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 336 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

David J NuttCentre for Neuropsychopharmacology, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College, London, W12 0NN, UK. d.nutt@imperial.ac.uk
Leslie A King
David E Nichols
Imperial College London · GBUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Medical Research Council G1002226Medical Research Council MR/J00460X/1Medical Research Council MR/K015192/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many psychoactive drugs are used recreationally, particularly by young people. This use and its perceived dangers have led to many different classes of drugs being banned under national laws and international conventions. Indeed, the possession of cannabis, 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine (MDMA; also known as ecstasy) and psychedelics is stringently regulated. An important and unfortunate outcome of the controls placed on these and other psychoactive drugs is that they make research into their mechanisms of action and potential therapeutic uses - for example, in depression and post-traumatic stress disorder - difficult and in many cases almost impossible.

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Biomedical ResearchLegislation, DrugAnimalsHumansIllicit DrugsNeurosciencesPsychotropic DrugsIllicit DrugsPsychotropic Drugs

Identifiers

PMID23756634
OpenAlexW2087848624

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