MDMA/Summary

Main article: MDMA

Psychoactive class: Entactogen, Stimulants

Chemical class: Amphetamine, MDxx, Substituted amphetamines

Oral

• Thresh				Common				Heavy
  20	-	20	-	80	-	120	-	150	mg
  		Light				Strong

• • Total: 3 - 6 hours
  • Onset: 30 - 45 minutes
  • Come up: 15 - 30 minutes
  • Peak: 1.5 - 2.5 hours
  • Offset: 1 - 1.5 hours
  • Afterglow: 12 - 48 hours

Harm potential

• • Moderately addictive with a high potential for abuse
  • Exact toxic dosage is unknown

Tolerance

• • Full tolerance is reached with prolonged and repeated use
  • Decreases to half after 1 month
  • Returns to baseline after 2.5 months
  • Cross-tolerance with all dopaminergic and serotonergic stimulants

Physical effects

• • Muscle contractions
• • Bodily control enhancement
  • Stimulation
• • Appetite suppression
  • Pain relief
• • Abnormal heartbeat
  • Brain zaps
  • Dehydration
  • Difficulty urinating
  • Dry mouth
  • Headache
  • Increased blood pressure
  • Increased bodily temperature
  • Increased heart rate
  • Increased perspiration
  • Nausea
  • Seizure
  • Teeth grinding
  • Temperature regulation suppression
  • Temporary erectile dysfunction
  • Vasoconstriction
  • Vibrating vision

Visual effects

• • Color enhancement
  • Pattern recognition enhancement
• • Auditory distortion
  • Symmetrical texture repetition
  • Time distortion
  • Tracers
• • Peripheral information misinterpretation
• • Geometry: Eventually leads to level 8A geometry
• • Autonomous entity
  • External hallucination
  • Internal hallucination
  • Perspective hallucination
  • Settings, sceneries, and landscapes

Cognitive effects

• • Cognitive euphoria
  • Compulsive redosing
  • Time distortion
• • Creativity enhancement
  • Empathy, affection and sociability enhancement
  • Increased music appreciation
  • Motivation enhancement
• • Anxiety suppression
  • Disinhibition
  • Dream suppression
  • Thought deceleration

Auditory effects

• • Auditory acuity enhancement
  • Auditory distortion
  • Auditory hallucination

Multi-sensory

• • Scenarios and plots

See also

• Responsible use
• Summary index
• Subjective effect index
• Psychoactive substance index