Question

10. What are some street names of MDMA? How is MDMA taken? In which categories of drugs does MDMA fall? Can MDMA cause panic attacks?

Answer 1

Answer :

Methyl​enedioxy​methamphetamine (MDMA), is popularly known as 'MOLLY' or 'ECSTASY'. MDMA is a type of psychoactive drug and has a number of street names.

Street names of MDMA

• Adam
• Beans
• Dancing Shoes
• Doves
• E-bomb
• Egg Rolls
• Happy Pill
• Hug Drug
• Love Drug
• Malcolm
• Molly
• Scooby Snacks
• Sweets
• Vitamin X
• Vowels

Ways of consuming MDMA

There are different ways of consuming MDMA. This drug is present in three distinctive forms : liquid, crystal and powder form. It can be taken orally in the form of a pill or a capsule, by wrapping it in a cigarette paper, or by licking crystal form or the dab powder form of MDMA. Some other ways are through snorting, or by dissolving it in a drink. Out of all these ways, snorting is the most effective way to take MDMA. Through snorting the drugs get easily in contact with the blood vessels, so it takes less time to take effect.

Category of MDMA

MDMA drug falls into the substituted amphetamine classes of drugs and hence has various stimulant and hallucinogenic effects.

Panic attacks and MDMA

Yes, MDMA can cause panic attacks as it alters the level of serotonin in the neurons of our brain. But the level of panic attacks and anxiety depends on the quantity and quality of MDMA and may vary from perosn to person.