Party Drugs MDMA Ecstasy: Factsheet

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The European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) is your source of drug-related expertise in Europe. The data used to generate the infographics and charts on this page may be found below (CSV format). In 2022, a total of 853 clients entered drug treatment for the first time due to MDMA-related problems in 2022. Most MDMA-related hospital emergency cases involved males, confirming trends in prevalence and patterns of use. Half of the centres reported no MDMA-related admissions to the intensive care unit. Türkiye is an outlier, buy ecstasy with MDMA identified in almost 1 in 5 drug-induced deaths (46 out of 246 in 2022).
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For the six countries that reported data for 2022, prices for tablets varied from EUR 733 to EUR 7 228. Tablets containing more than 150 milligrams of MDMA are considered high-strength ecstasy tablets, given the dose of MDMA required to elicit subjective effects in adults (a). On occasion, exceptionally high-strength ecstasy tablets were reported, reaching upwards of 250 milligrams of MDMA per tablet, which made up 1 % of all tablets tested in 2023 (3 % in the same period in 2022). In 2023, 39 % of the MDMA tablets tested by drug checking organisations submitting data to the TEDI network contained between 100 and 149.0 milligrams of MDMA (35 % in the same period in 2022), and 26 % contained between 150 and 199.9 milligrams (29 % in 2022).
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According to survey data, the two largest MDMA consumer markets per capita in the European Union are the Netherlands and Ireland, with 6 % or more people aged 15 to 34 reporting to have consumed MDMA in the last year. Some of the high-strength ecstasy tablets are scored to allow consumers to divide them into smaller portions. These identifications of high-strength ecstasy tablets prompted harm reduction organisations to issue alerts. In December 2023, beige-golden ecstasy pills with an Audi-logo containing over 300 milligrams of MDMA (between 316 and 324 milligrams) were submitted to drug testing in the Netherlands (DIMS, 2023). However, this trend appears to be changing, as ecstasy tablets have tended to contain less MDMA since 201

From 2004 to 2009, buy ecstasy the proportion of seized European ecstasy tablets that contained MDMA as the only scheduled substance dropped substantially. When availability of MDMA is high, ecstasy tablets tend to contain MDMA as the main or only psychoactive ingredient, with the opposite occurring when there are shortages. Despite this, on average, only a minority of EWSD respondents reported obtaining the drug online, although this varied widely across countries.

The subsequent drop in MDMA content in tablets since 2019 does not appear to have been accompanied by a significant drop in price. In 2021, adult respondents to the EWSD reported paying a median of EUR 7.20 per ecstasy tablet and a median of EUR 37.40 per gram for MDMA powder. (a) In clinical trials, doses of MDMA capable of producing subjective effects vary from 1.5 to 1.7 mg/kg of body weight, or approximately 105 to 119 milligrams for a 70-kilogram individual. Harm reduction responses, including the provision of drug-checking services and appropriate risk-communication strategies, are crucial to minimise these risks. Some tablets even contain stamping that indicate the quantity of MDMA present, although this is not always accurate and may also constitute a health risk. For example, in August 2023, tablets containing 350 milligrams of MDMA were seized in Spain.


Smaller numbers of respondents also reported using the darknet (13 %) and social media (7 %). Data from drug-checking services can also inform on the type of relationships that exist between the consumer and the provider. The products had a net weight of approximately 20 grams each and contained between 130 and 176 milligrams of MDMA, evenly distributed inside the lollipops. These products may make the use of MDMA more socially acceptable and appeal to non-habitual consumers and young people. In recent years, the appearance of alternative (non-tablet) edible consumer products containing MDMA has also been reported, including candies, jellies, gummies and lollipops (see Box 6.1. Lollipops containing MDMA seized in Belgium).
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Importantly, reported use of the drug declined temporarily during periods of social distancing during the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, coinciding with the closure of nightlife and the cancellation of events where MDMA is typically consumed.


For some countries (Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Malta, Netherlands, Norway and Türkiye) no data were available from the EWSD. The annual amounts used, in tablets, could be estimated for each survey participant based on their responses to questions on the number of tablets used on a typical day, multiplied by the number of days they said they used the drug in a year. As such, only last year prevalence and last month prevalence data are required to distinguish these two groups. Prevalence rates of the number of MDMA users, obtained from general population surveys, are multiplied by 2021 Eurostat population data of the age group. Wastewater data also reflect the predominant use of ecstasy in recreational settings, with more than three quarters of cities reporting that higher loads of MDMA were present in wastewater during the weekend than during weekdays in 2022. While the number of tablets used per session has not changed substantially from literature findings dating from several decades ago, today’s MDMA users generally ingest higher quantities of the psychoactive substance than before (Gremeaux, 2022