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A SUPER-STRENGTH ecstasy pill is making its way to Australian streets and could cause more deaths than ever before.
Known as the “crystal cap” the Herald Sun reports the pill is made up of 80 per cent MDMA, where as in the past ecstasy has only been up of 30 or 40 per cent of MDMA.
The Herald Sun reports police are analysing a batch of drugs taken by people on Chapel Street in Melbourne earlier this month, which caused three deaths and 20 hospitalisations.
It’s possible the revellers took the super strong $25 pill.
There have been a number of other deaths caused by ecstasy in recent years.
It’s been a deadly summer for drugs, and last November a petite Gold Coast woman spoke of her terrifying ordeal in a nightclub.
She described waves of hallucinations as “demonic” and felt bathroom walls were moving towards her while she sunk down in a cubicle.
Hospital Emergency consultant David Caldicott told news.com.au super strength ecstasy would be rife in Australia’s black market over the summer.
“The two big things we are scared about is the amazingly pure and high dose MDMA being detected in Europe,” he said.
“Australians tend to take two or three MDMA pills at a time, and this is made worse with drugs being a criminal rather than a health issue.
“Generally an ecstasy pill will be between 75mg and 100mg, but in Europe we are detecting MDMA of between 200mg and 300mg.
“That is going to cause big problems. When you start dealing with 200mg doses, you can die.”
The Herald Sun reports overseas gangs are to blame for the rise in the strong ecstasy pills.
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission national manager Richard Grant said it was because in Australia the demand was high and people were willing to pay for it.
Sylvia Choi, 25, a Sydney pharmacist who died of a drug overdose after collapsing at Stereosonic Music
Festival at Olympic Park in Sydney.Source:Supplied
There is no pill testing currently in Australia, which has been a controversial topic since a recent spike in ecstasy deaths.
A call to introduce pill testing in Victoria has been shut down by the state government.
A spokeswoman for Health Minister Martin Foley told the Leader there were no plans to introduce it, despite the three deaths in Melbourne earlier this month.
“We will consider calls for a real time public database of forensic information collected by police and hospitals and await the findings of the coroner’s hearing into overdoses,” she said
In November 2015, Sylvia Choi, 25, overdosed on pills at the Stereosonic festival in Sydney and 19-year-old Stefan Woodward died the same way a week later.
In September that same year, Nigel Pauljevic was found unconscious in a tent at the Defqon 1 Festival in Western Sydney.
Stefan Woodward in December 2015 after taking drugs.Source:Supplied
Last September a survey by Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System revealed nearly 60 per cent of people who took ecstasy ingested it in a high purity crystal form and many of those
users were bingeing on stimulants for up to 48 hours.
The research found users first mentioned the crystal ecstasy in 2012 but since then there had been a steady year-on-year increase in the use of crystal ecstasy.
“While pills are still the most common form reportedly used, the increasing popularity of ecstasy crystals appears to be linked to their increased purity,” said Amanda Roxburgh from the
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at the University of NSW.
More than 90 per cent of ecstasy users say it’s easy to get.
About five years ago only 70 per cent said it was easy to find.
About 75 per cent of people who take ecstasy are under 25 and mostly do it in nightclubs.
Source:http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...s/news-story/3e1ee47b03e3c0dcb0e1eafbddcf5141
Known as the “crystal cap” the Herald Sun reports the pill is made up of 80 per cent MDMA, where as in the past ecstasy has only been up of 30 or 40 per cent of MDMA.
The Herald Sun reports police are analysing a batch of drugs taken by people on Chapel Street in Melbourne earlier this month, which caused three deaths and 20 hospitalisations.
It’s possible the revellers took the super strong $25 pill.
There have been a number of other deaths caused by ecstasy in recent years.
It’s been a deadly summer for drugs, and last November a petite Gold Coast woman spoke of her terrifying ordeal in a nightclub.
She described waves of hallucinations as “demonic” and felt bathroom walls were moving towards her while she sunk down in a cubicle.
Hospital Emergency consultant David Caldicott told news.com.au super strength ecstasy would be rife in Australia’s black market over the summer.
“The two big things we are scared about is the amazingly pure and high dose MDMA being detected in Europe,” he said.
“Australians tend to take two or three MDMA pills at a time, and this is made worse with drugs being a criminal rather than a health issue.
“Generally an ecstasy pill will be between 75mg and 100mg, but in Europe we are detecting MDMA of between 200mg and 300mg.
“That is going to cause big problems. When you start dealing with 200mg doses, you can die.”
The Herald Sun reports overseas gangs are to blame for the rise in the strong ecstasy pills.
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission national manager Richard Grant said it was because in Australia the demand was high and people were willing to pay for it.
Festival at Olympic Park in Sydney.Source:Supplied
There is no pill testing currently in Australia, which has been a controversial topic since a recent spike in ecstasy deaths.
A call to introduce pill testing in Victoria has been shut down by the state government.
A spokeswoman for Health Minister Martin Foley told the Leader there were no plans to introduce it, despite the three deaths in Melbourne earlier this month.
“We will consider calls for a real time public database of forensic information collected by police and hospitals and await the findings of the coroner’s hearing into overdoses,” she said
In November 2015, Sylvia Choi, 25, overdosed on pills at the Stereosonic festival in Sydney and 19-year-old Stefan Woodward died the same way a week later.
In September that same year, Nigel Pauljevic was found unconscious in a tent at the Defqon 1 Festival in Western Sydney.
Last September a survey by Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System revealed nearly 60 per cent of people who took ecstasy ingested it in a high purity crystal form and many of those
users were bingeing on stimulants for up to 48 hours.
The research found users first mentioned the crystal ecstasy in 2012 but since then there had been a steady year-on-year increase in the use of crystal ecstasy.
“While pills are still the most common form reportedly used, the increasing popularity of ecstasy crystals appears to be linked to their increased purity,” said Amanda Roxburgh from the
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at the University of NSW.
More than 90 per cent of ecstasy users say it’s easy to get.
About five years ago only 70 per cent said it was easy to find.
About 75 per cent of people who take ecstasy are under 25 and mostly do it in nightclubs.
Source:http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/he...s/news-story/3e1ee47b03e3c0dcb0e1eafbddcf5141
