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The team at High Alert have issued a notification to let you know that they've identified serious harm believed to be linked with the consumption of a substance being misrepresented as MDMA in the Hawke’s Bay area. A small number of people were admitted to hospital after consuming this substance and experiencing serious harm. The effects after consumption are not consistent...

Australia Leads the Way with World-First Psychedelic Therapy In a groundbreaking move earlier this year, Australia's medicines regulator made a landmark decision to approve the use of psychedelics for therapeutic purposes. The decision allows for the use of psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, to treat treatment-resistant depression and MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This decision,...

Fantastic news from our friends across the ditch: From July, authorized Australian psychiatrists will be able to prescribe the MDMA and Psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and severe depression.

High Alert has issued a notification to let you know that a new synthetic cathinone has been detected in New Zealand. Dimethylpentylone was found in two samples tested by KnowYourStuffNZ in Dunedin, including in a pink ‘Playboy’ tablet that was sold as MDMA.  Very little is known about dimethylpentylone. Its harm profile is unknown, and as such its dosage, effects and...

Not surprisingly, most MDMA users will not take their ecstasy if it is shown to actually be something else altogether, in this case eutylone. Euthylone is often known as bath salts and is one of the many, many substances frequently misrepresented as ecstasy on the black market thanks to the current Prohibition of MDMA.When drugs such as MDMA are prohibited...

This year, four Australian institutions will start recruiting for separate research into using psilocybin and MDMA for PTSD, addiction, depression and anxiety.Edith Cowan and Monash universities will begin separate trials into the potential for MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. St Vincent's Hospital Sydney will examine the impact of psilocybin on preventing methamphetamine relapse, Monash will study its effect on...

A warning has been issued by New Zealand drug testing organization Know Your Stuff after testing at recent events found more than half of drugs purporting to be MDMA actually contained dangerous cathinones, research chemicals which are often referred to as bath salts. Dubbing this the "summer of cathinones", Know Your Stuff's Dr Jez Weston said there has been a...

The New Zealand Government will urgently legalize pill testing before the summer festival season. Pill testing allows harm reduction organizations to test illicit street drugs at festivals and events so as to tell users what chemical(s) are actually in them, as many illicit street pills that are sold as ecstasy actually contain other substances instead or as well as MDMA,...

There are concerns of a dangerous new street drug after drug fueled incidents occurred at a dance concert at Mt Smart stadium on Saturday night. Concert goers have reported multiple drug fueled incidents including people climbing on top of the roof of what has been described as New Zealand's largest ever marquee tent. The crowd has been described as violent,...

Findings from the last study in a series of six Phase 2 trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was published today in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. The clinical trial in Boulder, Colorado (MP-12) enrolled 28 participants suffering from chronic PTSD. Results showed that after 2 - 3 sessions of MDMA psychotherapy (with active doses of...

Promising peer-reviewed results published in Psychopharmacology On September 8, 2018, the results of the first clinical trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for the treatment of social anxiety were published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychopharmacology. All 12 participants in the small pilot study were adults on the autism spectrum, a population that commonly experiences severe social anxiety. Sponsored by the non-profit Multidisciplinary...

1987 - Despite little evidence of any actual MDMA related harm, the substance 3,4-Methyl​enedioxy​methamphetamine was prohibited by the US Drug Enforcement Agency in 1985. Sadly New Zealand followed suit in 1987 scheduling the substance as a class B controlled drug under MODA. Update 2/5/2019 - MDMA prohibition has failed in New Zealand and street-pills of various quality ranging from fairly...