DO PEOPLE OVERDOSE OFF OF ECSTASY AT RAVES ALL THE TIME?
No. A majority of media reports about MDMA-related deaths at raves are misreported as overdoses. Here are some of the factors that can lead to the misinterpretation: • MDMA is a stimulant-based drug. • Stimulants naturally increase body temperature, sometimes to dangerous levels with higher doses. • A majority of death victims from raves have fatally high body temperatures when found or pronounced dead. • These victims are also usually found with some MDMA in their systems. Because of all this, it is assumed that the overheating in such deaths is caused directly by MDMA toxicity in the user’s system, the same way victims die with fatally high body temperatures from PMA or methamphetamine overdoses. But for a user to die directly of an ecstasy overdose, their body would have to be intoxicated with the equivalent of probably a few dozen or more pure MDMA pills, far more than the average dosage taken for a recreational experience. Recent research has also proven that for rats, MDMA does n
