Ecstasy (MDMA), Amphetamine, and LSD: Comparative Mood Pro®les in Recreational Polydrug Users
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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, MDMAwas 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. # 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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