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In 2011, PMA was linked to one death. This year there have been 23 deaths linked to the drug, research by BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme found.
Prof David Nutt, a former government adviser, says a standard dose of PMA is between five and 10 times stronger than ecstasy.
And he says the risks of overdose are high because the drug takes longer to have an effect.
He said: "If you're used to having a sort of hit from ecstasy within 20 minutes or half an hour and you don't get this from PMA, then you think, 'Well obviously it was a bum lot - I'd better take some more.' "
Last year Gary Bass, 23, from Heswall, Merseyside, took tablets containing both MDMA and PMA. The drug was sold to him as ecstasy.
A friend of Mr Bass, who does not wish to be identified, tried to revive him on the night he died.
"The ambulance crew came in. They'd hooked him up to this machine and then it just started printing off a flat line, basically, and they said that he's dead already," he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24581947