AIMS Research shows that users of ecstasy (MDMA) exhibit deficits in executive processes. The updating component appears to be particularly susceptible. Less is known about the precise nature of such deficits. The present study sought to determine if ecstasy-related deficits in memory updating are related to serial position of items presented, or length of the list of items. METHOD Seventy-th...

BACKGROUND The increasing party culture in Zurich presents new challenges, especially regarding the consumption of alcohol and so-called party drugs. Streetwork, the youth advisory service of the city of Zurich, has provided onsite and stationary Drug Checking facilities since 2001 and 2006, respectively. Drug Checking always involves filling out an anonymous questionnaire, which allows the col...

Introduction Polydrug use studies mention demographic and socioeconomic factors that may influence this problem. One of them is the existence psychiatric comorbidity; Rentrop’s study (Rentrop et al., 2014) finds in a sample 50 patients all had at least one axis I disorder, 90% II which compromise outcome detoxification dehabituation treatments 2014). Another found 44.9% admitted to unit are pol...

Understanding the diverse functions of serotonin in the human brain can be obtained through examination of subjects having a lower than normal number of brain serotonin neurons. Behavioral abnormalities consistent with brain serotonergic damage have been reported in some polydrug users who also use the neurotoxin ecstasy (methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA). This review evaluates the evidence ...