Tox on the web: 12 students hospitalized at Wesleyan College after “Molly” overdose

Four students arrested at Wesleyan College after “Molly” overdoses: Last weekend a dozen students and visitors at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut were hospitalized after apparently ingesting a drug or drugs labelled as “Molly.” Two victims were in critical condition and were medevacked to Hartford Hospital, the only Level 1 Trauma Center in the region. By mid-week, these two patients were still in hospital but reported to be improving. Four students have been arrested in connection with this incident. As @forensictoxguy pointed out on his blog “The Dose Makes The Poison,” the reporting of this story on the media has been generally confusing. Some outlets described “Molly” as a pure potent form of MDMA (ecstasy), and reported that police attributed the extreme adverse effects to a “bad batch.” But as one official remarked, when it comes to “Molly” there is no such thing as a “good batch.” Users never no for sure what drug(s) their product contains; one report found that only 13% of “Molly” samples contained any MDMA at all. (And, of course, MDMA itself can be fatal.) Later statements from police indicated that the samples from Wesleyan contained several designer drugs. Because of this uncertainty about what’s in the drug, using “Molly” has always been a form of pharmaceutical Russian Roulette. TPR has pointed this out before. The Activated Charc...
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