Cheap, deadly ecstasy pills hit streets

First of all, let me state that in no way shape or form do I support drugs. Any kind of illegal drug in fact. There’ll be people who say weed is good for you, healthy, etc. Well they’re wrong, sure go ahead, flame me. It causes depression – no it’s not a side effect, it just happens. So the people who are depressed cope by smoking more weed, and it just goes on.

ECSTASY pills are getting cheaper and more dangerous, a new national study has revealed.

The drug’s street price in Western Australia alone dropped for the first time last year to hit a new low, Perth Now

reports.

The National Drug Research Institute said that an ecstasy pill in Western Australia cost on average $35, $5 less than in 2008, after years of stable prices.

I’d like to see how they find this out.

Survey results also showed that young users were taking the party drug more often and in bigger quantities.

True fact.

A study of 100 regular users found the number who binged on the drug rose from 22 per cent in 2008 to 40 per cent in 2009.

Daniel Fatovich, an emergency medicine specialist at Royal Perth Hospital, warned that cheaper prices meant more Western Australians could afford multiple pills, increasing the risk of overdoses.

Increasing the risk…. Well it probably WILL happen, and they MIGHT die. Probably will actually.

The drop in Perth’s ecstasy price was the first recorded by researchers for the national Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System, which monitors trends in the drug’s price, purity and availability.

The 2009 survey also found while other drugs were in decline, ecstasy was more popular. The majority of users took at least two pills a night.

Ecstasy purity also fluctuated, with pills now more likely to contain harmful substances.

Yep

Detective superintendent Charlie Carver, of the Serious and Organised Crime Squad, said many seized ecstasy pills contained harmful chemicals such as chalk and washing powder.

There was a significant drop last year in the use of speed, crystal methamphetamine and cocaine.

Oh isn’t that great! So what? They’re all on E’s now?