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MD: A FACT SHEET

, or MD, is a stimulant psychotropic substance, which was banned in India in 2015 under the NDPS Act. It is mostly available in white powdered form, sometimes as tablets or capsules, and or a New Psychoactive Substance (NPS)—products designed to recreate the effects of banned natural drugs as substitutes—its effects are similar to cocaine and ecstasy. Investigators also call it the ‘poor man’s cocaine’

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