Ecstasy (MDMA), amphetamine, and LSD: comparative mood profiles in recreational polydrug users
✍ Scribed by A. C. Parrott; M. Stuart
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6222
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✦ Synopsis
Twenty-one recreational polydrug users (age range: 17±34 years), were recruited into the study using the snowball' technique (Solowij et al., 1992). All had used MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or Ecstasy'), LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), and amphetamine, on dierent occasions. They completed modi®ed Pro®le of Mood States Questionnaires, to indicate their typical feeling states while on each drug. With three of the POMS factors, MDMA was intermediate between LSD and amphetamine, with feelings of energy, con®dence and clearheadedness, highest under amphetamine, lowest on LSD, and intermediate after Ecstasy. However in other respects MDMA's mood pro®le was more unique, with signi®cantly higher feelings of elation, agreeableness and composure, than the other two drugs.