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Around 33.000 Danes have a harmful use of illicit drugs, and thus, dentists will encounter patients with signs of drug abuse in their everyday practice. The purpose of this paper is to give a brief introduction into the pharmacodynamic properties of well-known illicit drugs, such as: heroin, cannabis, khat, amphetamine, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, LSD, and psilocybin. In the acute settings, like with drugs such as GHB and heroin will be associated with deep coma, while amphetamine and cocaine increase the sympathetic drive and the patient will appear violent or aggressive.

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