Stimulant drugs including cocaine, MDMA and multiple types of amphetamines contributed to roughly half of all accidental overdose deaths in Canada from 2020 to 2021, according to a new report by Statistics Canada that also tracked a sharp rise in overdoses.

Stimulant drugs including cocaine, MDMA and multiple types of amphetamines contributed to roughly half of all accidental overdose deaths in Canada from 2020 to 2021, according to a new report by Statistics Canada that also tracked a sharp rise in overdoses.

  • tempest
    9·
    8 months ago

    I mean that is a pretty sizeable qualifier considering most people don’t get MDMA directly from the source.

    Like many other drugs it should be regulated and sold legally so that is less of a concern.

    • Orbituary@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 months ago

      The problem is MDMA’s street name started as Ecstacy (later Molly of course), but X got cut with other things and fucked it.

      When I was partying in the 90s, we had test kits to look for other substances. If MDMA wasn’t pure, we’d probably not take it. We also knew our sources.