Friday, March 5, 2010

Ecstasy - MDMA deaths?

This is a tragic story but note the aside about “manufacturing drugs in their basement or their bedroom, mixing different types of drugs in a chemical process. [It's ] very easy to turn [into] something toxic”. The danger is generally not in MDMA, which is not very toxic in the short run, but in stuff masquerading as MDMA. Nevertheless, even pure MDMA is dangerous and does from time to time lead to fatalities: Shedding New Light on the "Safe" Club Drug: Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (Ecstasy)-related Fatalities
Acad Emerg Med. 2004 Feb;11(2):208-10 http://tiny.cc/T5yyL.


Party drug blamed for teens' deaths

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Sixteen-year-old Kayla Lalonde of Vancouver died in hospital after she was found lying on Rumble Street in south Burnaby just before 1 a.m. A few hours later, her friend Martha Jackson Hernandez, 17, died several kilometres away in a Richmond hospital.

Neither girl showed signs of trauma, and police suspected alcohol, drugs or a combination of the two contributed to their deaths.

Results from toxicology tests are not expected for at least two weeks, police said.

Ecstasy, or MDMA, is an illegal street drug that can cause feelings of euphoria.



One Vancouver addiction expert said he is afraid incidents like the deaths of the two teens will become more common. About 30 per cent of young people under 24 admit to having tried ecstasy, said Tom Hetherington, a manager at Pacific Community Resources Society in Vancouver.

Police investigate the scene where 16-year-old Kayla Lalonde was found lying in the street early Tuesday. (CBC)"It can be very, very dangerous — even one-time use," Hetherington said.

"You've got people manufacturing drugs in their basement or their bedroom, mixing different types of drugs in a chemical process. [It's ] very easy to turn [into] something toxic "

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6 comments:

ridenrain said...

Who could have predicted that illegal, unregulated drugs made by organized crime could ever be dangerous.

James C Morton said...

Good point. Of course, if legalized that issue would be gone. You don't go blind from JB -- people did go blind from bathtub gin during prohibition. Of course legalizing drugs is unthinkable -- except to Portugal (a left wing hippy dippy place if there ever was one)

Anonymous said...

Portugal did not legalize drugs they decriminalized them.

As far as I know no nation on Earth has legalized street drugs.I certainly don't want to see Canada be the first.

ridenrain said...

So what is the safe dosage of ecstasy, meth or crack? Will that safe dosage recommendation last as long as it did for tobacco and will all the highly taxed profits pay for the inevitable lawsuits?
I support people growing their own pot just as I would making their own wine, or even gin in their own bathtub but drugs like this are too dangerous and the organized criminals that make them need to be run down and imprisoned.

Anonymous said...

The gods tempt people for which they are most weak. Artificial Intelligence will create desire in people's minds for the following sins:::
1. Alcohol
2. Drugs
3. Preditory "earning"
4. Homosexuality
5. Gambling
6. Something for nothing/irresponsibility (xtianity)
7. Polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny (Islam)
Much like the other prophets Mohhamed (polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny) and Jesus (forgiveness/savior), the gods use me for temptation as well. In today's modern society they feel people are most weak for popular culture/sensationalism, and the clues date back to WorldWarII and Unit731:TSUSHOGO, the Chinese Holocaust.
It has been discussed that, similar to the Matrix concept, the gods will offer a REAL "Second Coming of Christ", while the "fake" Second Coming will come at the end and follow New Testiment scripture and their xtian positioning. I may be that real Second Coming.
What I teach is the god's true way. It is what is expected of people, and only those who follow this truth will be eligible to ascend into heaven as children in a future life. They offered this event because the masses have just enough time to work on and fix their relationship with the gods and ascend, to move and grow past Planet Earth, before the obligatory xtian "consolation prize" of "1000 years with Jesus on Earth" begins.

Your job as a future mother is to learn the god's ways and to help your child understand despite the negative reinforcement and conditioning of today's society. Without consciousous parents the child will have no hope, and may even exaserbate their disfavor by becoming corrupted in today's environment.
Your ultimate goal is to fix your relationship wiith the gods and move on. You don't want to be comfortable here, and the changes in Western society in the last 100 years has achieved just that.
1000 years with Jesus is the consolation prize. Don't be deceived into thinking that is the goal.

The Prince of Darkness, battling the gods over the souls of the Damned.
It is the gods who have created this environment and led people into Damnation with temptation. The god's positioning proves they work to prevent people's understanding.
How often is xtian dogma wrong? Expect it is about the Lucifer issue as well.
The fallen god, fighting for justice for the disfavored, banished to Earth as the fallen angel?
I believe much as the Noah's Flood event, the end of the world will be initiated by revelry among the people. It will be positioned to be sanctioned by the gods and led for "1000 years with Jesus on Earth".
In light of modern developments this can entail many pleasures:::Medicine "cures" aging, the "manufacture" of incredible beauty via cloning as sex slaves, free (synthetic) cocaine, etc.
Somewhere during the 1000 years the party will start to "die off", literally. Only those who maintain chaste, pure lifestyles, resisting these temptations, will survive the 1000 years. Condemned to experience another epoch of planet's history for their ignorant pursuit of xtianity, they will be the candidates used to (re)colonize (the next) Planet Earth, condemned to relive the misery experienced by the peasantry during history due to their failure to ascend into heaven before the Apocalypse.
Never forget:::It is not a house of Jesus.
If this concept of Lucifer is true another role of this individual may be to initiate disfavor and temptation among this new poulation, the proverbial "apple" of this Garden of Eden. A crucial figure in the history of any planet, he begins the process of deterioration and decay that leads civilizations to where Planet Earth remains today.
Which one is it? Probably both:::
One transitions into the other, allowing the gods to wash their hands of obligation to their Chosen One.

You are faced with a lifetime to work and prepare for your next chance. Too many will waste this time working, etc.

Cialis said...

It is so sad knowing that this generations needs synthetics to feel euphoria...What happened to the days when simply going out to dance was enough?