Gliflumide is a compound with a long-lasting hypoglycemic effect. This blood glucose lowering sulfonamide has shown a large decrease of blood glucose levels in healthy volunteers who where administered the drug orally or intravenously. A very similar reaction but delayed and prolonged response was observed for this drug compared to other insulin secretion-stimulating compounds (such as glibenclamide). High affinity of gliflumide to plasma proteins has been suggested to contribute to this delayed activity.

Mesocarb (sydnocarb or 3-(beta-phenylisopropyl)-N-phenylcarbamoylsydnonimine) is a psychomotor stimulant N-alkylated amphetamine derivative. Mesocarb is a selective inhibitor of dopamine uptake, it potently blocks dopamine transporter. It is very likely that mesocarb is being used by drug addicts. Mesocarb is included in the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of substances and methods that are prohibited in sports. It is used in Russia for the treatment of a variety of neuropsychiatric comorbidities.

Midamaline was used as a local anesthetic. Information about the current use of this compound is not available.

Soraprazan (remofuscin), a potassium-competitive acid blocker (P-CAB; formerly called an acid pump antagonist [APA]), is being developed by Katairo GmbH for the treatment of Stargardt's disease and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Clinical development is underway for Stargardt's disease and dry age-related macular degeneration in the Netherlands and Germany. On 13 November 2013, orphan designation was granted by the European Commission to Katairo GmbH, Germany, for soraprazan for the treatment of Stargardt’s disease. Soraprazan is a a highly potent reversible, and fast-acting inhibitor of gastric H,K-ATPase. Soraprazan shows immediate inhibition of acid secretion in various in vitro models and in vivo and was found to be more than 2000-fold selective for H,K-ATPase over Na,K- and Ca-ATPases.

Cathinone is one of the biologically active alkaloids found in the khat shrub (Catha edulis). Due to its psychoactive properties, khat has been known and utilized for ages by the inhabitants of East Africa and the northeastern parts of Arabian Peninsula. In many regions, chewing of freshly collected khat leaves (thus liberating cathinone, which affects the central nervous system) is considered a matter of culture and local tradition. Because of their structural similarity to amphetamine, cathinone and its analogs are often denoted as “natural amphetamines”, and the only structural difference between amphetamine and cathinone is the presence of a carbonyl group in the α-position of cathinone’s side chain. Similar to amphetamine, cathinone and its analogs are characterized by stimulating, euphoric, and empathogenic properties. Due to their effects on the central nervous system, the first synthetic cathinone derivatives were synthesized for medicinal purposes in the early twentieth century, but they began attracting wider attention around the year 2000. At that time, synthetic cathinones were included in a broader group of psychoactive compounds denoted as “legal drugs” or “designer drugs”