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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Omollo on January 06, 2015, 07:02:09 PM
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Ecstasy is a nickname for the psychoactive drug MDMA. The drug has been popular among dance music enthusiasts for decades, but the drug has begun to change in recent years, and these changes have led to many adverse outcomes, including death.
In the last few weeks, four people in the UK died after reportedly taking pills from a "bad" batch of ecstasy - and officers suspect all are linked with a batch of "Superman" pills from Ipswich. Over the last couple of years, throughout both Europe and the US, many users have been hospitalized or have died after taking ecstasy. So many poisonings have begun to occur largely because adulterants—primarily new psychoactive drugs—are now commonly added to ecstasy.
The history
Ecstasy has been one of the most popular party drugs since the 1980s. Despite being illegal, use has been widely available and closely associated with the dance music scene. Use was highest in the UK and in the US in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and decreased for about a decade. However, use in the UK increased in 2014. Although use has traditionally been associated with all-night dance parties such as raves, use has become more mainstream over the last decade due to growing popularity of dance festivals and “electronic dance music.”
I have been researching the epidemiology of club drug use since 2001 and I have interviewed hundreds of club-goers about their ecstasy use. I was also a “club kid” myself in New York City back in the day, and frequenting after-hours nightclubs for many years, I have witnessed quite a bit of ecstasy use.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/the-evolution-of-ecstasy-from-mandy-to-superman-the-effects-of-the-drug-mdma-9959732.html