Ecstasy and the Rise of the Chemical Generation
Jason Ditton, Richard Hammersley, Furzana KhanIn many ways, Ecstasy is an extraordinary drug. What particularly distinguishes it from everything that came before was the deliberate choice of such an advertiser's dream of a name for the rather less easily pronounceable MDMA (or, to be even more technical, 3–4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine). Rumour even has it that “empathy” as field tested as a candidate name, but that “Ecstasy” had more sales appeal. Furthermore, its apparently curious affect – a mixture of the energetic effects of, say, amphetamines, and the psychedelic effects of, for example, LSD – even meant that a whole new substance class, “entactogens”, had to be coined for experts to find somewhere to place it.
Năm:
2002
Nhà xuát bản:
Routledge
Ngôn ngữ:
english
Trang:
161
ISBN 10:
113513765X
ISBN 13:
9780415270403
File:
EPUB, 1.17 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2002