Researchers seek drug information
PA Dunedin Researchers into the effects and toxicity of the drug ecstasy, or MDRA, at the Otago Medical School are seeking more information from doctors who suspect they have patients using the drug. The chairman of the department of pharmacology, Professor Richard Laverty, and scientific officer, Barbara Logan, have been studying the drug for three years. In a letter to the latest “New Zealand Medical Journal,” the researchers said they had begun looking at ecstasy in anticipation of it becoming a problem drug in New Zealand. The researchers want doctors who suspect they have patients involved to advise them of the number of patients involved, the general circumstances of their involvement, and if possible obtain a sample of the drug being consumed. They said the compounds being marketed as ecstasy were produced in backyard laboratories and it was likely they were impure and could be mixtures of substances with different properties. “Without more information it is impossible to assess how significant the problem might bettor become:” ™
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