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Ecstacy's the trip of choice
By Clare Masters
November 03, 2006 12:00
ECSTASY is still the drug of choice for many Australians with new research showing it is becoming a weekly fix for many young people. / The Daily Telegraph
ECSTASY is still the drug of choice for many Australians with new research showing it is becoming a weekly fix for many young people.
A snapshot of the drug patterns of regular ecstasy users showed a 25-year-old user who also experiments with other drugs including ice.
The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre found 30 per cent of drug users surveyed used ecstasy weekly or more often and 93 per cent dabbled with other drugs simultaneously.
Young drug users are becoming tolerant to their vices with the study showing 45 per cent of users binged for more than 48 hours at a time.
"Compared to the late 90s people are using more ecstasy than they used to," Dr Degenhardt said.
"It used to be one (tablet) and on average it is now two – much higher for some people."
The study found decreasing levels of purity combined with a higher tolerance accounted for the rise in drug intake.
The findings will be presented on Sunday at the National Drug Trends Conference and are culled from annual NDARC surveys with regular drug-users.
Daily Telegraph