[NZ] WARNING - 'Ecstasy' takers sedated after nasty turn

[poledriver]

Drug users in South Auckland have been put in hospital after taking what they thought were Ecstasy pills that caused them to react so aggressively they needed to be sedated.

Some users suffered violent seizures and hallucinations that shocked staff at Middlemore Hospital's emergency department.

It is thought all the users took pills known as "red rockets".

Six people were treated last weekend and others continued to arrive up until Friday.

Hospital spokeswoman Lauren Young said emergency department staff immediately noticed the behaviours were not what they would usually see with Ecstasy.

The chemical MDMA gained the street name "Ecstasy" for its euphoric effects but drug dealers often cut their product with other chemicals and some Ecstasy contains no MDMA.

"They were behaviours they thought weren't consistent with Ecstasy ... people had been very aggressive and required lots of settling down and sedation."


Ms Young said there had been at least half a dozen cases last week and another two on Friday night.

At least three of the cases were from Pukekohe, where police have issued a warning for anyone who has the red rocket pills not to take them.

It was feared many more pills could be in circulation because it was likely they had been made in large quantities and could now be circulating throughout Auckland's party scene.

The use of Ecstasy, a Class B drug, has been on the rise in New Zealand with most users aged between 25 and 34.

Massey University drugs researcher Dr Chris Wilkins said: "People should be aware they may not be getting MDMA.

"They might get a bunch of chemicals that are entirely different and could include methamphetamine.

"Methamphetamine has got a really bad reputation at the moment as quite a harmful drug. One way to sell methamphetamine is to call it ecstasy and sell it as a powder."​

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[footscrazy]

At least this article says that it's the cuts that usually cause the problems, which makes it miles ahead of most media sources.

Selling methamphetamine powder as ecstasy though is pretty dumb. I don't doubt someone has tried it but I can't imagine that being widespread, you'd figure out pretty quickly it wasn't mdma.

 

[jaurk]

hmmm
Wonder how many of these are going around in nz.

 

[Divine Moments]

The use of Ecstasy, a Class B drug, has been on the rise in New Zealand with most users aged between 25 and 34.

Interesting, I thought it would be higher in 18-24s

 

[TangerinO]

"The chemical MDMA gained the street name "Ecstasy" for its euphoric effects but drug dealers often cut their product with other chemicals and some(MOST) Ecstasy contains no MDMA."

Change some to most and you'd have a pretty accurate media story on drugs. That's a rare find.

 

[thestudent14]

Sure wonder what was in it though.
Never like hearing about people having seizures.

 

[acidprime]

Coppers could just speak the truth.... They managed to fuck the supply of MDMA so hard that all pills now are bunk and filled with dangerous fuck knows what.

 

[drug_mentor]

Fucking sucks the market is so bad shit like this is happening, out of curiosity I wonder what was in those pills. Stuff like this is a good reminder why you should take the utmost caution if you want to take 'ecstasy' in this day and age.

 

[thestudent14]

^^^ The current guess's are high dose 2c-e, 2c-i or AMT.
I don't really have enough experience on these substances to say so though.

 

[Mr Blonde]

Coppers could just speak the truth.... They managed to fuck the supply of MDMA so hard that all pills now are bunk and filled with dangerous fuck knows what.

To be fair to the NZ cops, it was our own AFP who played a big part in destroying a large amount of sassafras trees in Cambodia.

But yeah, fuck the police. One day I'm going to get Diplomatic Immunity so I can go wave a big bag of Molly in their faces and they won't be able to do anything about it.