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| - | The majority of drug-induced deaths in Türkiye are among younger people, predominantly males, and are more likely to involve stimulant drugs rather than opioids, compared with the European Union and Norway. For example, in Germany, MDMA was mentioned in 1 in 25 fatal overdoses in 2022, with most of the cases involving multiple drugs. A review of MDMA-related mortality in [[https:// | ||
| - | Ecstasy adulteration is responsive to market pressures | ||
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| - | An overdose can occur if too much MDMA is taken or if it’s mixed with other substances, intentionally or unintentionally. Most standard drug tests, like the 12-panel drug test, explicitly test for the presence of MDMA. Understanding the MDMA Ecstasy/ | ||
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| - | While individual tablet weight cannot be a direct predictor of how much MDMA is present in each tablet, at population level this trend is consistent when comparing larger ecstasy tablets (almost always containing more MDMA) with smaller tablets (almost always containing less MDMA). This means that the ratio of MDMA to fillers (excipients) in the mixtures used to make ecstasy tablets did not increase over this time period. In the first period, between 2011 and 2019, the increase in MDMA content is largely attributed to the sale of larger (heavier) ecstasy tablets. This means that consumers buying ecstasy tablets in Europe in 2019 would obtain a product containing up to almost double the highest amount of MDMA recorded in ecstasy tablets in 2011. In Australia, in January 2024, potent opioids of the nitazene family were found in brightly coloured tablets with logos reminiscent of ecstasy tablet | ||
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| - | For some countries (Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Malta, Netherlands, | ||
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| - | These identifications of high-strength ecstasy tablets prompted harm reduction organisations to issue alerts. In December 2023, beige-golden ecstasy pills with an Audi-logo containing over 300 milligrams of MDMA (between 316 and 324 milligrams) were submitted to drug testing in the Netherlands (DIMS, 2023). Meanwhile, data from drug-checking services suggest that approximately 85 % of the powders tested in 2023 contained between 80 and 100 % MDMA (81 % in 2022). Data reported to drug-checking services are generally in agreement with these trends. However, this trend appears to be changing, as ecstasy tablets have tended to contain less MDMA since 2019. | ||
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| - | A review of MDMA-related mortality in Australia and three European countries (Portugal, Finland and Türkiye) showed an increase in the number of fatalities between 2011 and 2017 (Roxburgh et al., 2021 | ||
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| - | These psychedelic effects are generally subtler compared to other hallucinogens like LSD. An overdose can occur if too much MDMA is taken or if it’s mixed with other substances, intentionally or unintentionally. Most standard drug tests, like the 12-panel drug test, explicitly test for the presence of MDM | ||
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| - | Rates of adulteration of ecstasy tablets, their MDMA content and their price tend to reflect broader changes in the factors that affect the MDMA market. MDMA is most commonly found on the European market in the form of ecstasy tablets, relatively pure crystals or powders (finely ground crystals of MDMA that are typically mixed with other substances). Analysis of drugs sold as MDMA/ | ||
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