“Dancestasy”: Dance and MDMA Use in Dutch Youth Culture
Contemporary Drug Problems March 1, 2002 Tom F. M. Ter Bogt, Rutger C. M. E. Engels, Belinda Hibbel et al. 46 citations
“House” is the main youth subculture of the 1980s and 1990s in the Netherlands. For the members of this youth culture scene, house is a combination of going to parties and dancing all night while being high on MDMA, a drug better known as XTC/Ecstasy. This article is a review of the history of house and the Dutch house scene. It considers some of the psychological effects of dancing combined...