Data from over 50,000 ecstasy users collected as part of GDS2015 and GDS2016 suggest that just under 1% of ecstasy users sought emergency treatment following the use of pills and powders sold as MDMA in the previous 12 months. In fact, the recent failure of UNGASS to significantly shift from zero tolerance to one of adult acceptance that drugs can enhance people lives and that there are other approaches in addition to regulation that might help reduce drug related harm, means we have to change the conversation now. I believe we are missing a huge opportunity and one that is easier to start implementing than changing drugs laws. As EU governments create new drugs laws to ban new drugs (like the UK Government’s recent Psychoactive Drugs Bill – a ban on everything that gets you high) and evidence mounts that the majority of novel drugs are not very nice and rather risky, one consequence might be that people return to traditional drugs like MDMA. With better quality drugs comes the need for better quality drug education (actually rubbish drugs need better quality drug education as well!). But odd as it might seem better quality drugs are not necessarily safer for users (especially if you don’t know what you’re taking).
In many countries high purity MDMA crystal now competes with high dose MDMA pills (in many parts of Europe the average dose of MDMA found in ecstasy pills is now 100-150mg/pill with doses over 300mg having been reported). The rising popularity of EDM and dispersion of MDMA from the dance floor to mainstream drug culture has coincided with resurgence of MDMA availability. MDMA has never been so plentiful and as GDS trend data shows, more and more people are using it. Safer drug use is more enjoyable drug use and accepting that pleasure drives drug use not the avoidance of harm might help us to start having healthier and useful conversations with people who choose to use drugsĭr Adam R Winstock on behalf of Global Drug SurveyĢ016 might be the worst time to start taking MDMA in a generation. Dosing for pleasure and why less is often more
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