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Category: Drug Abuse Science
When I last took up the quixotic campaign of David Nutt, Ph.D., Professor of Psychopharmacology, Univ. of Bristol and former Chair of the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, it was to point out his belief that...
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Category: MDMA
10-20 times the normal deficit in Ecstasy users? Really???
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Category: MDMA
Is it gauche to beat up on some poor kid who couldn't be bothered to research an article for some crappy college newspaper?
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Category: MDMA
A topic that arises every now and again, particularly when I am discussing Ecstasy-related medical emergency and death, is the nature of the psychoactive ingredients in Ecstasy tablets. For definitional purposes, I consider 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) to be what is considered...
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Category: MDMA
It is no great leap of genius to see that test / re-test reliability is particularly important when the diagnostic instrument consists of asking people about their illegal and socially stigmatized behaviors.
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Category: MDMA
It isn't a bad idea. I just happen to think that it may be a little naive when it comes to the more contentious topics.
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Category: MDMA
A new paper in the print queue at Drug and Alcohol Dependence presents a review of MDMA-related fatalities in Australia across a five year interval. It makes a good addition to the sort of Case by Case Report stuff that...
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Category: Day in the life of DrugMonkey
These are the kinds of things that make me modestly sympathetic to my drug-lovin' critics' conspiracy theories.
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Category: MDMA
A new Case Report is framed directly for the recreational drug denialist position.
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Category: MDMA
Abel Pharmboy has re-posted a blog entry he first published in Dec 2005 entitled Rave drug testing - public benefit?. Sounds like a good thing to me: your kid is at a rave party and wants to experiment with some...
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