The past week has seen a number of drug disasters in the UK, one of which is the unexpected deaths of three men, two from Ipswich and one from Telford. They all appear to have taken a drug called PMA (phenoxymethylamphetamine). We presume that they did not know this was what was in the pills bearing the Superman logo that they bought – it seems likely they thought it was ecstasy (MDMA).
A big shout out to Eugene, Oregon DJs Sokko and Lyons, who recently released a harm reduction video on MDMA. We appreciate their balance of humor, caution and a non-judgmental harm reduction approach. This is the only way to educate people and save lives. They also used a lot of information from our MDMA Neurochemistry Slideshow, and linked to us in their Youtube post. Thanks guys! Check out our comments below the video.
In "Drugs Unlimited," British journalist Mike Power takes us a provocative and eye-opening tour of the world of the new synthetic drugs and the role of the Internet in making it all possible. "We are in a spot where we can open our TOR browsers, find our way to any of the dozens or hundreds of online drug supermarkets, and buy whatever drug we want . . . The genie is out of the bottle and, no one is going to get it back in."
An “unforgettable son” who collapsed and died on Brighton beach after taking ecstasy had undiagnosed fatty liver disease. Lee Rebbeck, 18, of Laburnum Avenue, Hove, died shortly after collapsing outside Shooshh nightclub in Kings Road Arches, Brighton, in the early hours of Friday, August 18. The former Blatchington Mill sixth-form student, who worked part time at the Co-op supermarket in Hangleton Road, Hove, was celebrating A-Level results with friends.
DanceSafe would like to thank Excision for prioritizing the health and safety of our community! We hope more artists and event producers engage in health promotion efforts and practices. For more strategies and priority health topics, visit our website- www.dancesafe.org
ABINGDON, VA - The mother of a 19-year old UVA honors student has launched a campaign to change a federal law that she contends is outdated and likely contributed to her daughter’s death. Shelley Goldsmith died of heat stroke last summer at an electronic dance music (EDM) event in Washington DC after taking the drug MDMA. Dede Goldsmith, mother of Shelley Goldsmith, has already collected over 1,000 signatures on her petition website, AmendTheRaveAct.org, launched on August 31, 2014, the one-year anniversary of her daughter’s death. She plans to take the petition along with a proposed amendment to Congress this...
In the face of a failed War on Drugs, a global commission composed mostly of former world leaders recommended on Tuesday that governments decriminalize and regulate the use of currently illicit drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and psychedelics. "The international drug regime is broken," reads the report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy, whose members include former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan; former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz; former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and former high commissioner for human rights at the UN Louise Arbour; and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, as well...
What police have found in the drugs they’ve tested so far are MDMA, MDA and methylone. The first is obviously what partiers are hoping for when they purchase “Molly,” but the last two are cause for some concern, since they mimic some of the effects of MDMA but differ in toxicity and dosage response curves. There’s a lot of incentive for dealers to sell other drugs as MDMA.
A federal law enacted to combat the use of "club drugs" such as Ecstasy — and today's variation known as Molly — has failed to reduce the drugs' popularity and, instead, has further endangered users by hampering the use of measures to protect them. University of Delaware sociology professor Tammy L. Anderson makes that case in a paper she will present at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
The following is a letter to the Baltimore Sun, written by the mother of Shelley Goldsmith, a 19-year old who died last Summer after taking MDMA at an EDM concert in Washington DC. The letter is in response to an editorial published by the Sun a few days earlier in support of harm reduction as an appropriate public health response to drug use at EDM events.
