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| - | Fun, arcade-style game to educate students about drug effects and potential harms. Short introduction to the effects of cannabis, LSD, cocaine, MDMA/ | ||
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| - | A study conducted by 10 drug-checking organisations from the TEDI network found that the increase in MDMA content in tablets in this time period was directly related to an increase in the average weight of ecstasy tablets (Vrolijk et al., 2022). The average content of MDMA in ecstasy tablets appears to be on a slight downward trend from 2019, after close to a decade of increasingly stronger (and larger) tablets becoming available on the market. On occasion, neurotoxic compounds such as PMMA (5) are detected mixed with, or as a replacement for, MDMA in ecstasy tablets. From 2019 onwards a new cycle appears to have begun, whereby the number of ecstasy tablets containing other substances alongside, or instead of, MDMA has increased (as expressed by a drop in percentage in the indexed trends shown above from 96 % in 2019 to 73 % in 2022). Crystal MDMA was marketed as a purer product compared to ecstasy tablets, an assertion that was and remains largely true (see Section The trend of large tablets containing more MDMA may be reversing). One way to observe these cycles is to monitor rates of adulteration, | ||
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| - | (1) The European Web Survey on Drugs (EWSD) is a voluntary, anonymous survey run by the EUDA and its partners targeting directly people who use drugs who are 18 years old or older, and are living in one of the participating countries. When using wastewater data to estimate MDMA markets, the use of MDMA is based on the excreted parent drug, rather than on an excreted metabolite (which is the case for some other drugs, such as cocaine and heroin). While a slight decrease in price was observed in 2022 for ecstasy tablets, this may not be statistically significant or sustained in the coming years. In fact, it could be argued that MDMA in the form of ecstasy tablets became cheaper between 2012 and 2019 as tablets containing larger quantities of MDMA became increasingly available on the market (see Section The trend of large tablets containing more MDMA may be reversing). | ||
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| - | Ecstasy adulteration is responsive to market pressures | ||
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| - | However, these data are not generalisable either, and as such should be interpreted with caution. These products typically contain MDMA hydrochloride (see Box Forms of MDMA present on the European market). | ||
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| - | According to 2021 data, tablets and powders/ | ||
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| - | Based on reporting from drug-checking clients, the majority of samples were reported as being obtained from a supplier (either a trusted supplier or a random street supplier) and a smaller proportion (close to 5 %) as bought on the internet (surface web or darknet | ||
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| - | Where prevalence is higher, it may suggest that MDMA is no longer a niche or subcultural drug limited to dance clubs and parties in those markets. According to survey data, the two largest MDMA consumer markets per capita in the European Union are the Netherlands and Ireland, with 6 % or more click to investigate people aged 15 to 34 reporting to have consumed MDMA in the last year. Some of the high-strength ecstasy tablets are scored to allow consumers to divide them into smaller portions. | ||
