Twenty-one recreational polydrug users (age range: 17Β±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 com
Reasoning deficits in ecstasy (MDMA) polydrug users
β Scribed by John E. Fisk; Catharine Montgomery; Michelle Wareing; Philip N. Murphy
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 132 KB
- Volume
- 181
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-3158
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