Creamfields warning: PMA drug 'stronger than ecstasy'

People heading to the annual Creamfields festival in Cheshire are being warned about the dangers of a new drug which is "stronger than ecstasy".

Halton council's drug action team said Para-methoxyamphetamine (PMA), increases blood pressure, body temperature and pulse rate.

"It can cause the body to release a hormone that suppresses urine production. This means that if you drink a few pints of liquid too quickly, water builds up in the body and interferes with your body's salt balance This can directly affect the brain and this can be as deadly as not drinking enough water"

They warned festivalgoers that dancing for long periods or excessive water drinking with the drug could be fatal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-14660993

About time there was something new - hope this warning is like the others - makes it look threatful, but if your night is measured how you know it should be, then your in for a good night

You'd rather than MDMA than PMA in your e's

PMA isn't new its been around since the 70's

para-Methoxyamphetamine (PMA; "Death", "Dr. Death", "Chicken Powder", "Chicken Yellow"), also known as 4-methoxyamphetamine (4-MA), is a serotonergic drug of the amphetamine class. Unlike other similar drugs of this family, PMA does not produce stimulant, euphoriant, or entactogen effects, and behaves more like an antidepressant in comparison, though it does have some psychedelic properties.
PMA has been occasionally found in tablets labeled as MDMA (colloquially known as "ecstasy"), although its effects are markedly different compared to those of MDMA. PMA is commonly synthesized from anethole, the flavor compound of anise and fennel, mainly because the starting material for MDMA, safrole, has become less available due to law enforcement action, causing illicit drug manufacturers to use anethole as an alternative. Once thought to be a human invention, recent research suggests PMA occurs as a trace alkaloid in plants including certain Acacia species.

PMA first came into circulation in the early 1970s, where it was used intentionally as a substitute for the hallucinogenic properties of LSD. It went by the street names of "Chicken Powder" and "Chicken Yellow" and was found to be the cause of a number of drug overdose deaths (the dosages taken being in the range of hundreds of milligrams) in the United States and Canada from that time. Between 1974 and the mid-1990s, there appear to have been no known fatalities from PMA. Several deaths reported as MDMA-induced in Australia in the mid-1990s are now considered to have been caused by PMA, the users unaware that they were ingesting PMA and not MDMA as they had intended. There have been a number of PMA-induced deaths around the world since then.

Ah right - doesn't sound like my cup of tea

Dennisthemenace will be quad dropping at midnight no doubt

Been browsing the net and it doesn't look like it. Hardly any dodgy e's about at the minute. Sounds like its just a scare tactic.

Thanks for the post

lol quad dropping, never had never will, especially with these beasts about atm

but im lucky enough not to have taken a PMA pill, Stay safe get a tester kit

And for the record most ive ever had was 18 in one day but that was 2006 when they were like 2 quid each , lmfao