When it first entered France in the mid' 80s, this product was rather reserved to a "switched-on" population,
Since the early '90s it became much more popular, among others in the frame of "rave-parties".

Presentation

• Pills marked with a symbol (dolphin, dove, mickey...),
• Powder,
• Caplets.

Administration

Desired effects

• Conviviality,
• Improved attention,
• Hypersensibility to sounds and colors...,
• Resistance to fatigue.

Unwelcome effects

• Psychological dependency,
• Pupils dilatation,
• Mouth dryness, dehydration,
• Muscular contractions (jaws),
• Tiredness,
• Sadness, anxiety, disorientation,
• Hypertension and cardio-vascular deseases.

• Association with alcohol, other products ore some medications (including AIDS treatments such as Ritonavir) enhance these effects,
• Components and therefore quality being uncertain, it is often possible to have these products tested upon entry to "rave-parties".