Monday mood decline after weekend ecstasy use: A retrospective analysis of daily diary reports [PDF]
Background: Ecstasy is commonly used on weekends and linked to post-use mood declines. Laboratory studies with pure MDMA rarely detect residual effects, whereas naturalistic studies more often report mood reductions.
Christopher Medina-Kirchner +1 more
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Prevention of adolescent stimulant drug use: Do the home life environment and extracurricular activities influence this? Findings from the Irish Planet Youth Survey. [PDF]
IntroductionStimulant drug use during adolescence (e.g., cocaine or ecstasy) can lead to a myriad of adverse health effects, but it remains uncertain how the home life environment and involvement in structured extracurricular activities may correlate ...
Fionn P Daly +3 more
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Illicitly Traded Tobacco Use Among Samples of People Who Regularly Use Illegal Drugs in Australia, 2024–2025 [PDF]
ABSTRACT Introduction Australia's illicit tobacco trade poses major challenges, with evidence of increasing use. We examined: (i) use of illicitly traded tobacco (ITT) and reasons for use among two populations of people who use drugs in Australia; and (ii) factors associated with ITT use, versus exclusive licit tobacco use, in 2024 and 2025.
Connor Graham +10 more
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Despite the recent promising results of MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) as a psychotherapeutic agent and its history of misuse, little is known about its molecular mode of action.
Ángel A. Islas, Thomas Scior
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Ecstasy in Music: The Case of Sema and Semah
Ecstasy is a state of altered consciousness in which a person is in a state of trance. The person in this state experiences an introspection and returns to their essence.
Merve Nur Kaptan
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Alienata da’ sensi: reframing Bernini’s S. Teresa [PDF]
Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa for the Cornaro Chapel (1647–52) is perhaps the artist’s most sensually charged creation, and the apparently physical nature of Teresa’s ecstasy is today even acknowledged in survey textbooks.
Andrea Bolland
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ACUTE NARCOTIC DRUG INTOXICATIONS: ETIOLOGY, SEX/AGE DISTRIBUTION AND CLINICAL OUTCOME [PDF]
Purpose: Poisoning with drugs is a serious medical and social problem worldwide. Retrospective analysis of acute poisoning with narcotic drugs had been performed in Varna region for 25 years (1991-2015).
Petko Marinov +6 more
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Ecstasy – a way to religious knowledge: some remarks to Paul Tillich as theologian and philosopher
Much of the research examines ecstasy from the point of view of psychology, history or sociology, but a philosophical reflection on ecstasy is missing. Here, some points in the philosophical and theological thinking of Paul Tillich are presented.
Tage Kurtén
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Exploring new avenues: Psychedelic‐assisted therapy for young people
Rates of mental illness in young people are increasing, whereas the development of novel mental health treatments has not significantly progressed. Psychedelic‐assisted therapy, using substances such as psilocybin and 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), has shown potential in the treatment of mental illnesses in the adult population, including ...
Ioanna Artemis Vamvakopoulou +3 more
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Breaking point: Identifying the factors that predict suspension from school
Abstract School suspensions are associated with adverse educational and psychosocial outcomes, yet little is known about how structural disadvantage, relational factors, health behaviours, well‐being indicators and school‐level factors jointly predict suspension risk in England.
Stephanie Cahill +5 more
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