Ecstasy MDMA

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Ecstasy (MDMA)

• Slang Terms XTC, Adam, E, Eve,
• History
• 1914 Merck for appetite suppressant
• 1970s Psycotherapy and Recreational Use
• 1985 DEA Schedule I
• 1996 number one recreational drug in Europe

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Ecstasy (MDMA)

• Acute Toxicity
• Symptoms
• Complications
• Aggravating Factors
• Treatment
• Symptomatic
• Decrease body temp
• Hydration
• Control excitation and convulsions

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Ecstasy (MDMA)

• Internet Information
• How to make Acid
• MDMA and Penacillin
• MDMA in piss
• Herbal Ecstasy trial
• How to Get Ecstasy Samples Tested

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Gamma Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB)

• Slang Terms
• Grievous Bodily Harm
• Georgia Home Boy
• Organic Quaalude
• Easy Lay
• Substitutes
• GBL - gamma butyrolactone
• 1,4 BD - butanediol

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Gamma Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB)

• History
• 1960- anesthetic effects but no analgesia
• 1977- GHB enhances growth hormone
• 1990- 57 cases of GHB-illness banned from sale
• 1996- 69 cases reported in Texas/New York
• 1999 -2000 Federal law for use in rape, succesful
  homicide convictions in Michigan
• Possession legal, manufacture and sale not
• FDA approved use in narcolepsy trials

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Gamma Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB)

• Routes of Abuse
• Snorted or Caps
• Straight up or mixed in drinks
• GBL BD
• GBL - Renewtrient -
• FDA\ask for voluntary ban
• BD - liquid (32oz) - Paris

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Gamma Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB)

• Internet Information
• Where and how to purchase GHB home manufacturing
  kits
• Case of Hematuria from home-manufactured GHB
• Latest cases involve recovering 1,4 BD from
  inkjet cleaner fluid Hurricane.

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Gamma Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB) Substitutes

• GHB, GBL, 1,4 BDL made C-I/C-III by Federal law
  2000
• Still most common product identified in forensic
  date-rape cases.
• Newest congener GVL not as active
  pharmacologically

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Gamma Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB)

• 23 states have adopted Federal law.
• Only four states control for analogs
• 725 million pounds of 1,4 BD alone manufactured
  for industrial use a year

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DEXTROMETHORPHAN

• Opiate derivative with NMDA\receptor activity
• Structure similar enough to PCP to react on urine
  drug screens
• Widely used in cough/cold products
• Available as an OTC chemical
• Slang names D, DXM, Vitamin D, Robo D

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DEXTROMETHROPHAN

• Internet information
• Triple C Coricidin abuse
• Purchase sites for bulk powder
• Chat rooms with
• How to make Robo Jello
• How to make Robo fruit rool-ups
• How to extract DM from syrups

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Other news/new agents on the Web

• 2-CT-7 (hallucinogenic amphetamine) Blue Mystic.
  
• Recommendations for SSRIs and other prescription
  products for controlling adverse effects
• Ritalin and Adderall abuse recommendations
• DNP - Dinitrophenol (for weight loss)
• Foxy methoxy 3 cases last week in Chicago

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Major sites

• Erowid.org
• Lyceaum.org
• Dancesafe.com
• Drugfreeworkplace
• CDC.gov

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• Paloucek_at_uic.edu