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The pharmacology and toxicology of "ecstasy" (MDMA) and related drugs.

Overview of attention for article published in Canadian Medical Association Journal, October 2001
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5 news outlets
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2 blogs
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28 X users
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1 Facebook page
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8 Wikipedia pages
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2 Redditors
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5 YouTube creators

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553 Mendeley
Title
The pharmacology and toxicology of "ecstasy" (MDMA) and related drugs.
Published in
Canadian Medical Association Journal, October 2001
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Authors

H Kalant

Abstract

"Ecstasy" (MDMA) and related drugs are amphetamine derivatives that also have some of the pharmacological properties of mescaline. They have become popular with participants in "raves," because they enhance energy, endurance, sociability and sexual arousal. This vogue among teenagers and young adults, together with the widespread belief that "ecstasy" is a safe drug, has led to a thriving illicit traffic in it. But these drugs also have serious toxic effects, both acute and chronic, that resemble those previously seen with other amphetamines and are caused by an excess of the same sympathomimetic actions for which the drugs are valued by the users. Neurotoxicity to the serotonergic system in the brain can also cause permanent physical and psychiatric problems. A detailed review of the literature has revealed over 87 "ecstasy"-related fatalities, caused by hyperpyrexia, rhabdomyolysis, intravascular coagulopathy, hepatic necrosis, cardiac arrhythmias, cerebrovascular accidents, and drug-related accidents or suicide. The toxic or even fatal dose range overlaps the range of recreational dosage. The available evidence does not yet permit an accurate assessment of the size of the problem presented by the use of these drugs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 5 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Poland 1 <1%
Unknown 540 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 138 25%
Student > Master 68 12%
Researcher 50 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 46 8%
Student > Postgraduate 38 7%
Other 90 16%
Unknown 123 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 129 23%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 48 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 45 8%
Chemistry 44 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 42 8%
Other 107 19%
Unknown 138 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 79. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 April 2024.
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#551,852
of 25,761,363 outputs
Outputs from Canadian Medical Association Journal
#918
of 9,548 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#309
of 45,036 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Canadian Medical Association Journal
#1
of 37 outputs
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