Atropa spp

Recent Misuse. Unfortunately, in the past decade reports on the misuse of such crude magic drugs by youths and young adults in Europe increased with often fatal psychiatric complications after intoxication with, e.g., Atropa spp., Brugmansia spp.. Datura spp., Hyoscyamus spp., Mandragora spp. (Gopel and Marcus 2000). Thus, e.g., self-made tea from leaf and flower of angel s trumpet caused psychotic and comatous condition of two patients (Dinkel and Bedner 2001). 

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