More than two-thirds of the popular party drug MDMA in Dunedin is a potentially dangerous substitute, drug testing in the city found last week. About 45% of the supposed MDMA tested was the new, and potentially dangerous, drug eutylone, Mr Boyle said. A decade ago, party-goers were taking pressed pills assumed to contain a cocktail of drugs, including the psychoactive drug MDMA, often called ecstasy or molly, but the market had since shifted. Drug testing typically took around five minutes. Last week Know Your Stuff NZ tested around 40 samples, Mr Boyle said.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 23, 2021 15:33 UTC