Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy)-related hyperthermia.
The Journal of emergency medicine November 2005 Manish M Patel, Martin G Belson, Adam B Longwater et al.
MDMA (or 3, 4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine) was first manufactured in the 1920s and found to have structural similarities to both mescaline and amphetamines. Used briefly by some therapists in the 1970s and early 1980s as an adjunct to psychotherapy, it is now primarily abused by teenagers and young adults as an illicit recreational drug known as "ecstasy." As its popularity has increased, so...