Designer drug is a term used to describe psychoactive drugs which are created (or marketed, if they had already existed) to get around existing drug laws by modifying their molecular structures to varying degrees.  According to Dr. Gary Wadler, a NYU School of Medicine professor & lead author of the book "Drugs and the Athlete", it is likely that no two doses of any designer drugs are identical in structure or strength, changing from batch to batch, from 'chemist' to 'chemist.'  A lot of "tweaking" the old stuff, turned out to be a very dangerous enterprise!  One person takes "Ecstasy" (MDMA) or "Special K" (Ketamine) & has the Euphoric experience of a lifetime.  The person with them takes it, & dies on their first "Trip"!  And, no one, can explain it!  Heard that before?  I most certainly have.  In the mid 1980's the popularity  of Ecstasy, forced new legislation in the United States.  The Controlled Substances Act was amended by the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement of 1986 that attempted to ban designer drugs pre-emptively by making it illegal to manufacture, sell, or possess chemicals that were substantially similar in chemistry & pharmacology to Schedule I or II drugs.  But, that didn't quite do the trick!

     Because the government  was powerless to prosecute people for these drugs until after they had been marketed successfully, laws were passed to give the DEA power to emergency schedule chemicals for a year, with an optional 6-month extension, while gathering evidence to justify permanent scheduling, as well as the analogue laws mentioned previously.  Emergency-scheduling power was used for the first time for MDMA (Ecstasy). In this case, the DEA scheduled MDMA as a Schedule I drug and retained this classification after review.

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