Dirty drug
The term dirty drug (to German dirty drug ) referred pharmacological parlance, a drug that the brain to different molecular binding sites or receptors bind. Although this achieves a wide range of effects, it also often leads to unintended and unpredictable (side) effects . Nowadays attempts are made to achieve the most specific effect possible with drugs in order to keep the undesirable effects as low as possible.
Examples
- All ergoline dopamine agonists , i.e. H. Dopamine agonists derived from ergot alkaloids (see also lisuride ). They work on different receptors rather than just the dopamine receptors they should actually be targeting.
- Modafinil
- Ibogaine
- Mirtazapine