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MDMA:

Here we go again. Ecstasy, death...unsubstantiated claims.

Category: MDMA

Canada. Again. This time in Whistler: A 20-year-old male had been found unconscious by friends. When police arrived, Whistler Fire Rescue Service and Emergency Health Services personnel were performing CPR, but failed to revive the victim, who was pronounced dead...

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UK Home Office Restores Drug Science to the Back of the Bus

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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Speaking of College Journalism on MDMA

Category: MDMA

10-20 times the normal deficit in Ecstasy users? Really???

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College Newspaper Writing in the GoogleAge

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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Longitudinal analysis of street Ecstasy content

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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Diagnostic Criteria for MDMA abuse and dependence

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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Revisiting: Wikipedia on MDMA

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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On MDMA-related deaths and fatalities in Australia, 2001-2005

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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Wow, that "addictiveness index" looks mighty precise.

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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Yes, it really is the MDMA that killed him

Category: MDMA

A new Case Report is framed directly for the recreational drug denialist position.

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