“Designer drugs”这个名称是美国加利福尼亚大学Davies分校的药理学教授Gary Henderson在80年代初期最先使用的,指的是那些合成的或在实验室内可制成的,被美国食品与药品管理局(Food and Drug Administration,FDA)管制的药物的类似物.最早曾采用“狡诈药”作为中文译名,后认为译成“策划药”比较确切. The name “Designer drugs” was first used by Gary Henderson, a professor of pharmacology at the University of California at Davies, in the early 1980s to refer to those synthetic or lab-made drugs that were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Food and Drug Administration, FDA controlled drugs analogues.) Earliest use of “cunning drugs” as the Chinese translation, later translated as “planning drugs” more exact.