Magín Farré

Magi Farré is medical doctor (MD, PhD) and specialist in Clinical Pharmacology. Actually, he is the Head of the Clinical Pharmacology Unit at Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol (Institut Català de la Salut) in Badalona and Professor of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

During the last twenty years has been involved in the study of the human pharmacology of different substances including MDMA, GHB, flunitrazepam, tramadol, cannabis and alcohol and its interactions. In recent years he has been part in different European projects about Novel/New Psychoactive Substances.

The last one is the JUSTSO project.

His recent investigations include the acute pharmacological effects of 2C-B , synthetic cathinones and other psychostimulants, alcohol, synthetic cannabinoids, and new synthetic opioids in humans. In addition he has been interested in the pharmacological treatment of addictions (mainly cocaine, alcohol and cannabis) and the therapeutic use of cannabis and hallucinogen drugs.