Facilitate recreational drug testing to help save lives

Author(s): 
King LA
Published: 
2015
Publisher: 
The Pharmaceutical Journal

Abstract

There have recently been a number of deaths from users who ingested the Superman pill, which contained a toxic substance, p-methoxymethylamphetamine (PMMA). We can assume that the users did not know what was in the pills before they ingested them, although they probably thought they were taking 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA), a popular recreational drug widely known as ecstasy.<br/>Providing a service where users can have their drugs tested before they take them is one way to help reduce hospital admissions and deaths.
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