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Increased MDMA Use Among College Students: Results of a National Survey
This study, performed at the Harvard School of Public Health, analyzes data regarding ecstasy use and related behaviors from the 1997 and 1999 Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study. The survey is a nationally representative sample of over 14,000 college students at 119 U.S. four-year colleges.
The results indicate a rapid increase in ecstasy use among college students during the past decade. This increase was observed across nearly all subgroups of student and college type. A smaller sample of ten colleges revealed that the increase continued in 2000.
The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence and changing patterns of ecstasy use among college students, and to determine characteristics, associated behaviors, and interests of ecstasy users. The results show that ecstasy users were more likely to use marijuana, engage in binge drinking, smoke cigarettes, have multiple sexual partners, consider arts and parties as important, religion as less important, spend more times socializing with friends and spend less times studying. Unlike other illicit drug users, ecstasy users were not academic underachievers and their satisfaction with education was not different from that of non-ecstasy users.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/Documents/MDMA/
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher Harvard School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management 677 Huntington Avenue Boston, ma 02115-6096 Phone: 617-432-4493
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Boston University School of Public Health 
