Prescription for Pain: Young Addict Finds Road to Recovery

Prescription for pain: Young addict finds road to recovery
In suburban communities, law enforcement officials say, teenagers are more apt to abuse prescription pills than, say, cocaine or heroin, simply because they're so available. Often, they're right in their medicine cabinets. At 23, with blond hair, brown … Read more on The Providence Journal

Overdoses of 'Molly' Led to Electric Zoo Deaths
On average, only about four people a year have died in New York City from MDMA overdoses, a tiny fraction of the 700 deaths from drugs, city health officials say. From 2000 to 2011, there were 43 deaths from ecstasy, compared with 4,676 cocaine … Read more on New York Times (blog)

Electronic Dance Music's Love Affair With Ecstasy: A History
The photo, its caption said, was of MDMA, and was “made up of cocaine, crack, ecstasy & bath salt.” We could laugh if what the poster of that photo was doing … If the drug is produced and used responsibly, it will take 1.6 grams—about eight times … Read more on The Atlantic