Superman ‘ecstasy’ pill deaths are result of ‘illogical and punitive drugs policy’
- Seizure of 400 pills on Sunday night
- A man has been charged and two men have been bailed after arrests made as part of the investigation into the deaths
- Resulting in death of 4 men
The deaths of four men who had taken pills they thought were ecstasy are the result of the government’s “illogical and punitive drug policy”, a former drugs tsar has said. Dr David Nutt, who advised the last government on drugs policy until 2009, said that current policy had targeted the production and sale of MDMA only to see it substituted by a more toxic substance. MDMA is the chemical name for ecstasy, but the pills bearing a Superman emblem that have been linked to four recent deaths – three in Suffolk and one in Telford – are believed to have been made with a high concentration of the chemical PMMA.
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