Emergency Department Visits Related to "Ecstasy" Use Increased Nearly 75 Percent from 2004 to 2008
Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 08:30
in Health & Medicine
A new national study indicates that the number of hospital emergency visits involving the illicit drug Ecstasy increased from 10,220 in 2004 to 17,865 visits in 2008 - a 74.8 percent increase. According to this new study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) most of these Ecstasy-related visits (69.3 percent) involved patients aged 18 to 29, but notably 17.9 percent involved adolescents aged 12 to 17.