Public health focused on drug use is considered a balancing act between preventing illicit use of drugs of abuse and ensuring access to drugs/medicines with abuse potential for a medical condition. Whereas clinically relevant drug interactions for medicines are widely recognized and are included in most pharmacovigilance systems, drug interactions with drugs of abuse are mainly underexplored,...
MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine), popularly known as “ecstasy,” “E,” “Adam,” “XTC,” “M&M,” or “Molly,” is a synthetic compound of phenethylamine with stimulant and hallucinogenic properties. It is a common recreational street drug affecting young people particularly at urban dance parties in Hong Kong. MDMA abuse is widely reported in electronic dance music (EDM) festivals all over the...