New drug replaces the ‘heavy’ ecstasy pill – De Gelderlander

Xtc is getting stronger, so more and more users are resorting to a plea that much resembles: 4FA. In other words: ecstasy light. “It starts with tingling. Then I feel bright and cuddly ‘

The effect of the drug -. Full 4-fluoro amphetamine and also 4-FMP, called 4F or 4-FA – comparable that of ecstasy, but lighter. Hence it ‘ecstasy-light’ is mentioned. ,, You’re still able to have a normal conversation and especially the next day people report fewer symptoms than after using ecstasy, “says Daan van der Gouwe of the Trimbos Institute, that monitors drug use in the Netherlands.

In 2015 ecstasy light offered more than 700 times in thirty locations throughout the country where users can get tested drugs.
That’s about 6 percent of the total number of tests and more than doubled compared to the previous year. the supply of drugs at the test sites is a good indication of its popularity, Van der Gouwe says.

Trend
drugs can lower other tested at IrisZorg, GGD and Jellinek. Irmgard Poelemans, coordinator of the testing service of IrisZorg in Gelderland, speaks of a national trend. ,, and I expect that will continue this year. There will be more interested in. “

4-Fluoro Amphetamine is a so-called designer drug. Of these, a lot of different types on the market. The usage is usually confined to a handful of people.

How it is that precisely this drug so popular is becoming? The ecstasy that is now on the market is so strong that people under the influence of a pill can not think normally hard to come out of their words, and afterwards sometimes for days of the card, Van der Gouwe sums up. There are even deaths, as in the Amsterdam Dance Event, two years ago.

Forbidden
4-Fluoro Amphetamine was on the drug list, but has since been removed from . It is not (yet) prohibited under the Opium Act, and so can simply be bought legally. “Then some people think it so no harm, but that is certainly not true. Alcohol is legal and certainly not innocent,” Poelemans warns.

As Van der Gouwe she recommends for all to none at all to use drugs. Who Doing so is at risk. Also available in ecstasy light.

“We do not know what the risks are of them, especially in the medium or long term,” says Van der Gouwe. Moreover, the dosage is difficult Poelemans notes.

Since they are not pills like ecstasy but
capsules or powder. The price is roughly comparable to that of ecstasy:
average 4.40 euros for a capsule

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