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Right, but the Obama tablet probably isn't MDMA

Category: MDMA

Perhaps the reporter meant to reference the August issue of the DEA bulletin?

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I feel very sorry for the Philosophy students of University College London

Category: #FWDAOTI

This is what passes for a publishable opinion piece from one of their professors? I've been following the work of Professor David Nutt even before the newspapers took interest, since sitting on a working party on drug regulation for the...

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Clinical MDMA Brief (28 Nov 2009)

Category: MDMA

A recent bit in the Vancouver Courier touts another clinical trial for MDMA as adjunctive therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. If you haven't been following along some of my prior observations are here, here, here. If you want everything I've...

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Guess what? It was the MDMA that killed her.

Category: MDMA

"By late Monday night, Mercedes's brain scan showed no activity: The tiny pink pill had rendered her brain-dead."

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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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