Not every dealer is honest and smart. You have people trying to cut costs, trying to mix in something that's white powder. If you are lucky it's sugar, if you're not lucky it's something horrible with bad effects. Both Ecstasy and PMA affect the heart and the brain. The heart rate speeds up, as does the user's body temperature.
Muscles become hyperactive.
Complications of PMA and MDMA can include seizures, heart arrhythmia, kidney failure and a coma. Other problems, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, can include involuntary teeth clenching, nausea, blurred vision, fainting and chills or sweating. The national agency also says recent research links MDMA use to long-term damage to parts of the brain critical to thought, memory and pleasure. Tim Santamour, national network and training coordinator for DanceSafe, stressed that people are not seeking to buy PMA on the street the way they are with Ecstasy. If it turns up in someone's system, chances are they didn't mean to ingest it, he said.