An insight into the deep web; why it matters for addiction psychiatry?

Nowadays, the web is rapidly spreading, playing a significant role in the marketing or sale or distribution of “quasi” legal drugs, hence facilitating continuous changes in drug scenarios. The easily renewable and anarchic online drug‐market is gradually transforming indeed the drug market itself, from a “street” to a “virtual” one, with customers being able to shop with a relative anonymity in a 24‐hr marketplace. The hidden “deep web” is facilitating this phenomenon. The paper aims at providing an overview to mental health's and addiction's professionals on current knowledge about prodrug activities on the deep web.

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