Influences of activity wheel access on the body temperature response to MDMA and methamphetamine.
Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior September 2011 N W Gilpin, M J Wright, G Dickinson et al.
Recreational ingestion of the drug 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "Ecstasy") can result in pathologically elevated body temperature and even death in humans. Such incidents are relatively rare which makes it difficult to identify the relative contributions of specific environmental and situational factors. Although animal models have been used to explore several aspects of...