Actually, they added a methyl group to MDA. MDMA is also less potent by weight than both MDA and methamphetamine and clinically safer than both.

As far as abuse potential, it’s basically very shitty speed when you try to take it to often. The primary mechanism of action is way different than methamphetamine. Which makes it very hard to redose and get high again. This means it has a difficult time forming the dopamine reward cycle we see with cocaine and methamphetamine.

It’s also never smoked and rarely shot, which are the two routes of administration that most easily set up dopamine reward pathways because the drug kicks in so much faster than via ingestion.

Which isn’t to say people won’t try to abuse it. But that has way more to do with the person’s personality type than the drug, as MDMA really doesn’t have the same abuse potential as it’s parent compound (MDA) or it’s relative (methamphetamine).

In my experience, MDMA is less addictive than sex or video games and isn’t on the same level as methamphetamine at all (and I’ve shot both).

Source: I’m a drug nerd who has taken some college level pharmacology focused on illegal drugs. I’m also a recovering meth addict who got over my meth addiction when some friends gave me molly twenty something years ago.

We used to call it E. MDMA I mean. We used to call X Twitter.

Now we just call it a dumpster fire. X I mean. E is still pretty good tbh.

So if they have higher literacy you’re saying capitalist countries don’t meet the criteria for minimum acceptable education?

Not all cats but I’ve certainly had some cats that were way more in tune with things.

Our cat Midnight, our best mouser, protected the pet hamster from the other cats when it got out of its cage.

She also never laid on me. But one night, laying on my sister’s bed, she laid on my back and purred like crazy. I was in a very dark headspace that night. Suicidal ideation and what not (something I struggled a lot with in my life due to childhood trauma that has mostly resolved with the help of EMDR, Buddhism, and plant medines).

I did some time for growing psilocybin. Midnight came to me in my dreams. My spirit guide, again, in that dark place.

She lived to be eighteen. Great friend. Much more than a pet.

edit: She also snatched a piece of roast right off my plate lol. She was sitting on the arm of the couch and waited until I turned my head, distracted, talking to my gf.

For sure! Glad you made it over :)

Crazy. Most subs have strict rules against name calling. I guess it doesn’t count when they’re using language the mods approve of.

Sam Harris has a real hardon for bashing religion which is sad considering how much Buddhism he practices (and how much his close mind and anger towards religion corrupts his practice).

Meditation is just mental masterbation and ego parlor tricks without the Dharma (the deep ocean of love and understanding we all swim in, what more enlightened Christians call God.) So much for “Waking Up”.

Which is my way of saying, militant atheists are children making a religion out of bashing people with points of view they don’t like (kinda reminds me of bible beating Christians and I’m sure they would loathe the comparison). And I too find them annoying as fuck.

the content has gone to shit anyway. i still scroll there some to keep up with news and generally don’t find much news and way to many amiugly posts on the front page.

Making money for shareholders is the only moral compass corporations have.

So… make more money is the right thing to do and everything else is a means to that end. Even feel good slogans and corporate mottos.

i hate that we value and reward greed too. because greed is, ultimately, a stupid bottomless pit that only leads to extraction and environmental destruction.

can be the number too. it runs way better if you use fewer extensions (i think i use about ten and most are lightweight or don’t run all the time).

I’m not addicted to anything other than dodging mu uncomfortable feelings.

Which I am super addicted to so I end up on lemmy alot!

so you’re daughter loves high fructose corn syrup. basically.

It’s both. Nicotine is also both. Note how people at AA still often smoke. And how much coffee they’ll pound even after dinner.

The only drug I misclassified is SSRIs. Which don’t trigger the dopamine reward system.

And my comment was in light of OP and common language usage. People say heroin addiction and they mean heroin dependency. It doesn’t help anyone to be pedantic about these two words. And I say that as someone who has taken college level classes on pharmacology and alcohol and drug dependence and is very aware of the technical differences used professionally.

I guess I don’t associate caffeine withdrawal headache with migraine as I don’t generally get migraines but tension headaches instead.

The caffeine withdrawal felt like my head was imploding, if that makes sense. Not sure if that’s a migraine or if opioids were making it worse, but the Vicodin I was prescribed absolutely had 500mg of Tylenol in it; and only 5mg of hydrocodone.

A week of this was terrible and it did not improved. I have sense learned to moderate caffeine and often drink tea instead of coffee or even decaf or halfcaff when I want to cut down. I will never try to cold turkey it again.

i have a friend that ate a lot of the stuff. i know it can be toxic at high doses but i would call it psychoactive more than poisonous.

also see my comment regarding some bugs like psychedelics (I’ve heard of slugs and racoons going after outdoor psilocybin beds)

but we’re not talking about migraines.

we’re talking about caffeine withdrawal headaches.

neither of which are 💯 understood but that doesn’t make them the same.

plus, Vicodin has Tylenol in it. so i was taking Tylenol.

Vicodin has Tylenol in it

Vicodin has Tylenol in it

was that bad form on my part?