The head of the National Drug Board (JND), Daniel Radíoreferred to the case of the young man who died at an electronic party and that the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating whether it is related to the ecstasy pill identified as EA Sports. “Sometimes people consume substances believing that it is something else, they do not take the precautions they think they take and that is very serious,” held.
“The content of the pill was not MDMA (ecstasy) but was another substance: MDA”Radio noted. This last substance belongs to the family of phenylethylamines, is a derivative of amphetamines and has an effect similar to ecstasy, that is, a stimulating reaction in the consumer.
the toxicologist Alba Negrin declared to Underlined that the MDA “alters vision and senses“. In addition, he warned: “It can cause closure of the coronary arteries, rapid heart rate, kidney failure, and lack of blood supply to the brain.”
The head of the National Drug Board, meanwhile, pointed out that After the pandemic, the consumption of synthetic drugs increased.
“Synthetic drugs are basically used at parties and since during the pandemic there were practically no activities of this type, the use had been greatly reduced.” “When the pandemic ends and electronic parties return, they are used again. We have many problems there: one is that the pills that are consumed are not necessarily what they say they are”he explained in statements to Underlined.
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File, Archive. The head of the National Drug Secretariat, Daniel Radío
The head of the SND said that “one must not consume” these substances, because “it is not authorized”, but he maintained that one must “assume what happens, that people consume at parties”.
“We are in favor of risk management and damage reduction. We believe that people have to make the choices they see fit. We discourage their use,” he stated.
“Sometimes a lot of people don’t like it because they understand that this is regulating consumptionbut in reality what happens is that we have to assume that it is a fact of reality, that in electronic parties it is consumed and therefore special precautions must be taken, ”Radio declared.
On the other hand, the hierarch reported that work is being done on “a guide of recommendations for the authorization” the kind of parties where synthetic drugs are used. “Now we are trying to elevate it to the category of standards, that there is a minimum floor of characteristics that a party has to meet in order to be enabled and we are even thinking that there may be another higher floor so that a party can be recommended or not. We are working on it with employers and staff,” he explained.
Asked if the companies that organize the parties can be inspected and fined, Radio stressed: “In reality, what you have to do is enable or not enable the party. And other determinations would have to be made.”
