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Rolling in: Use of Molly - the purest form of Ecstasy - growing on campus, becoming party staple
#13365423 - 10/21/10 06:55 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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http://www.dailyorange.com/news/rolling-in-use-of-molly-the-purest-form-of-ecstasy-growing-on-campus-becoming-party-staple-1.1720135
Rolling in: Use of Molly - the purest form of Ecstasy - growing on campus, becoming party staple
Dim lights, blaring music, students crammed into a dirty basement: It's a typical Friday night.
Enter Molly: The room brightens, the heart races, the crowd becomes comforting.
Molly is the nickname for the purest form of MDMA, or Ecstasy. A highly popular drug in the 1990s rave scene, MDMA, an amphetamine, is reemerging as a common party drug at Syracuse University. The limited research on the drug's long-term effects, combined with the euphoric feeling it induces, has led some students to perceive it as a safer alternative to other hard drugs.
"I know a lot of kids that say they don't do drugs would do Molly," said Casey Siegel, a sophomore fashion design major.
Siegel said she heard about MDMA in high school and knew students who did it last semester. But this semester, she has witnessed an increase in the drug's popularity among students, she said.
MDMA usage was at its height in New York state in the 1990s, said Erin Mulvey, special agent and public information officer for the New York field division of the Drug Enforcement Agency. Recent investigations have shown the drug coming across the Canadian border and being marketed to college students as a "club drug," she said.
Pure MDMA reduces the serotonin in the brain. This induces happiness, but the user cannot tell if it is real or fake happiness, she said. But there is no way to tell if the pills or powder are pure MDMA unless they are tested. The ingredients are often mixed in unsanitary places like bathtubs and toilet bowls, Mulvey said. MDMA is often laced with other drugs like ketamine, methamphetamines and heroine, she said.
Some dealers press well-known brand names into the pills, like Coach or Mercedes, to market them to young people, she said.
"It's kind of playing Russian Roulette," Mulvey said. "You don't know where the drug's from. You don't know what's in it."
Erica Peterson, a senior anthropology and Spanish major, said she had never heard of students taking Molly before she left to study abroad in Chile last spring. But when she returned to SU this semester, she said use of the drug seems to have exploded.
Although she has never taken the drug, she knows many who have. She recalls one weekend party during which "half the people I knew left to do Molly," she said.
Crouse Hospital, less than a mile away from SU campus, has seen a significant increase in the past two to three months of patients in multiple units who use MDMA, said Monika Taylor, manager of outpatient services.
There has also been an increase in calls to the hospital from users and their family members for more information about the drug, she said. Some parents call with concerns about their child's well-being in regards to MDMA, she said. The increase in MDMA use started recently, Taylor said, so there are no solid statistics to give yet.
Crouse's rehabilitation center has six different support groups for people recovering from dependency. One of the clinicians told Taylor half of the members of her group names MDMA as their drug of choice, she said. Taylor said there has also been an increase in young people coming through the detoxification unit as a result of using Molly or Ecstasy, she said.
Crouse tests MDMA with a urine screening, and Taylor said the hospital has a panel of basic drugs it tests. That panel changes as drug trends change. Currently MDMA is on the list, she said.
The age range for patients coming in for MDMA treatment or therapy is generally between 18 and 25, Taylor said. She is unsure if SU students make up a significant portion of those patients, she said.
"I know it does include some college students, but I would be hesitant to say just college students," Taylor said.
Taylor attributes the drugs' popularity among young people to the reason why young people explore other drugs - a sense of invincibility. Young people often think nothing can hurt them when it comes to drugs, Taylor said.
Some of the usual effects Taylor has seen are increased heart rate, heavy sweating, teeth clenching, chills and sometimes a sharp increase in body temperature, she said. In the 1990s, when Ecstasy first made headlines as a rave drug, Taylor said there was a trend of sucking on pacifiers because of the teeth grinding.
There are patients at Crouse who claim a dependency and see withdrawal effects, but that is not the case for everyone who uses MDMA, Taylor said.
"From my understanding, some people may not get addicted to it," Taylor said. "Young people are willing to take the risk and bet they won't get addicted."
MDMA in itself can be harmful to the body, but Taylor said what young people should be more wary of is that MDMA in Ecstasy or Molly is not always pure.
Some patients who said they used MDMA tested positive for PCP, and when told, they responded, 'Well, that's not the drug I was using,'" Taylor said.
Tibor Palfai is the professor for PSY 315: "Drugs and Human Behavior" and has authored books on drugs. Most of the research on the long-term effects of the drug has proven to be inconclusive, he said. The drug could be legally purchased in bars until the mid-1980s, he said.
The drug is often taken in party settings, but alcohol and MDMA are not compatible, Palfai said. This is because alcohol is a "downer" and Ecstasy is an "upper."
MDMA is popular among college students because it induces feelings of empathy toward others. The drug makes users feel warm toward everyone around them, he said.
"College students are highly sexual beings, and I think this drug facilitates it," Palfai said.
MDMA has been used successfully in certain medical cases, Palfai said. In the 1980s, a psychiatrist in San Francisco used it as a therapeutic aid, he said.
But "in the wrong hands, irresponsible college students may use too much," Palfai said.
For college students, the risks involved increase in a party setting, where dancing and overcrowding are common. Dehydration is a main side effect of MDMA, and if not consciously avoided, it could lead to overheating, convulsing and seizing, Palfai said.
Despite these possible dangers, students who take MDMA perceive the drug as benign in comparison to other drugs, such as cocaine or a hallucinogen.
"It's not like a hallucinogenic, you don't have to have a babysitter" said Peterson, the SU senior. "I don't know anyone who would do it to watch a movie."
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Re: Rolling in: Use of Molly - the purest form of Ecstasy - growing on campus, becoming party staple [Re: dwpineal]
#13365449 - 10/21/10 07:05 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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x after weed should be the next drug to be legal, mabe it will cause a domino effect and tumble down prohibition altogether
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Re: Rolling in: Use of Molly - the purest form of Ecstasy - growing on campus, becoming party staple [Re: auronlives69]
#13365500 - 10/21/10 07:33 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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The problem with "x" right now is people are getting the wrong idea because most the shit out there isn't even MDMA.
If more people had a truly facilitated experience, I believe this world would be very different. Don't just pop something at the club, do some research and maybe some organic chem classes... But definitely don't jump to the idea of what you tried was that specific chemical.
I believe Shulgin said something like "you can't take these compounds and go bopping around on a Saturday night" they had it so good in the 70's and they all just abused the fuck out of it!
We really need to educate our public about these chemicals... Anything you take in excess will be detrimental, but if used properly it could be so beautiful!
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Re: Rolling in: Use of Molly - the purest form of Ecstasy - growing on campus, becoming party staple [Re: dwpineal]
#13365951 - 10/21/10 10:26 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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I want to travel back in time, preferably with Michael J. Fox, to a 1980s bar that sold pure MDMA pills. Buying pure MDMA and openly consuming it at a bar would be neat.
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Re: Rolling in: Use of Molly - the purest form of Ecstasy - growing on campus, becoming party staple [Re: PsilocybinMike]
#13366197 - 10/21/10 11:29 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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LUL "cut with heroine"
More like just pipes and speed (blech)
Just went to QuickFixx10 in 'Cuse over last weekend to see Datsick...BANGIN show and there was hardly a raver to be found without googley-eyes. I know I schnooted my MDA before I dove in
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Re: Rolling in: Use of Molly - the purest form of Ecstasy - growing on campus, becoming party staple [Re: dwpineal]
#13367173 - 10/21/10 04:02 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
dwpineal said: Pure MDMA reduces the serotonin in the brain. This induces happiness, but the user cannot tell if it is real or fake happiness, she said.
Oh trust me it's real happiness
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Re: Rolling in: Use of Molly - the purest form of Ecstasy - growing on campus, becoming party staple [Re: PsilocybinMike]
#13367212 - 10/21/10 04:12 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
PsilocybinMike said: I want to travel back in time, preferably with Michael J. Fox, to a 1980s bar that sold pure MDMA pills. Buying pure MDMA and openly consuming it at a bar would be neat.
That would be fun. There's a bar here in town that sells coke to customers. Needless to say it's a bad vibe in there sometimes.
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Re: Rolling in: Use of Molly - the purest form of Ecstasy - growing on campus, becoming party staple [Re: FractalDust]
#13367532 - 10/21/10 05:30 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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haha I know one of the girls who responded to the article. Looks like she got her shit right.
This article is obv written by a couple of students. Nobody else could sound so stupid.
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Re: Rolling in: Use of Molly - the purest form of Ecstasy - growing on campus, becoming party staple [Re: dwpineal]
#13367633 - 10/21/10 05:52 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Pure MDMA reduces the serotonin in the brain.
Wow...
MDMA increases serotonin in the brain several fold...
Great fact checking.
Edited by BothHands (10/21/10 05:58 PM)
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Re: Rolling in: Use of Molly - the purest form of Ecstasy - growing on campus, becoming party staple [Re: BothHands]
#13370231 - 10/22/10 08:08 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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yeah i caught that right away.
this article was just pretty much retarded...
she also said that heroin was commonly pressed into the pills...that you would be crazy to want to take any bc it could be anything from anywhere...
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Re: Rolling in: Use of Molly - the purest form of Ecstasy - growing on campus, becoming party staple [Re: dwpineal]
#13370508 - 10/22/10 09:44 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Molly is fucking great. God bless who ever synthesizes the stuff
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