To: gondramB
It apparently doesn't take much error in the bath tub manufacturing process to get a byproduct that causes Parkinson disease like symptoms.
Sorry, wrong drug. Parkinson's symptoms are caused by MPTP, produced by mistakes in synthesizing MPPP which is a meperidine (an opioid analgesic) analogue. No relation to MDMA whatsoever.
That said, this will be an interesting case from medical standpoint. However, consider this: Someone abusing ethanol on this scale would probably have died long time ago...
48 posted on
04/03/2006 10:16:17 PM PDT by
MirrorField
(Just an opinion from atheist, minarchist and small-l libertarian.)
To: MirrorField
Thanks for the post. I am postive I saw a TV show on the link but a google search indicates that info was wrong.
>>A Bad Batch
In the Wake of a Major Retraction of a Report that Linked Parkinson's Disease
to Ecstasy Use, Some Critics Wonder if Politics is Poisoning Science
By Rebecca Alvania, Baltimore City Paper, December 10 - December 16, 2003 <<
http://www.maps.org/mdma/bcp121003.html
51 posted on
04/03/2006 10:21:46 PM PDT by
gondramB
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