NRG-1, NRG-3, naphyrone

History

The NRG products as well as Naphyrone are relatively new, only appearing on the market in 2010. Google trends data on NRG-1 searches indicates a spike in searches in the latter half of April 2010. The government announced that mephedrone and other substituted cathinones were to be controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 on the 29th March 2010 and became controlled drugs on 16th April 2010). This affected some of the NRG products that contained cathinone products. Naphyrone then also became controlled separately on 12th July 2010.