A report released last month has found an usually high number of Ecstasy-related deaths among young people. The report, generated by Professor Fabrizio Schifano at the University of Hertfordshire, appeared in the online version of Neuropsychobiology.

"Professor Schifano and his colleagues at St Georges, University of Londons International Centre for Drug Policy, which runs the National Programme [sic] on Substance Abuse Deaths (np-SAD), reviewed stimulant-related deaths from the np-SAD database and from the British Crime Survey2001-2007," the medical news site ScienceDaily reported.

Study of the database and crime survey found that there was almost as many Ecstasy-related deaths as there were amphetamine and methylamphetamine-related deaths combined. Of equal concern was the fact that most of the Ecstasy deaths were young, healthy people.

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