AMT Death leads to negative media attention.

[rxbandit]

Bay County Death

http://www.wtvynews4.com/news/headlines/208701.html

Authorities in Bay County are hoping to learn today what kind of drug killed 21-year-old Felicia Staats. Detectives say a new drug called AMT is being sold as Ecstasy.
It's believed that Staats died after taking the pills Sunday night.
Jason Clewis, who also took the same drug, was found in "what appeared to be a daze" and nearly died from taking the same substance.
Authorities say the pills appear to be a popular form of Ecstasy known as "Blair Witch."
Investigation continues in the case.
wtvynews4.com Extended Web Coverage
AMT
Although AMT is a relatively new drug of abuse, its appearance shows a trend of many non-controlled substances being sold to capitalize on the current popularity of club drugs such as MDMA, more commonly known as Ecstasy.
AMT is also called IT-290 and is known chemically as alpha-methyltryptamine. It is a hallucinogen that is found in tablet and capsule form and contains either an orange or off-white powder.
Users may experience increased energy, empathy, euphoria, hallucinations, emotional distress, anxiety, dilated pupils, jaw clenching, nausea, headaches, vomiting and diarrhea. The duration of effects from 20 mg of AMT usually last between 12 and 24 hours.
Tryptamine, the parent molecule of AMT, is known to produce convulsions and death in animals. The safety of these substances for use in humans has not been studied.
AMT is not currently listed as controlled substances in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970; however, the DEA has determined that individuals and organizations trafficking these substances with the intent of human consumption can be prosecuted under the federal drug-analog statute.
Source: http://www.usdoj

[Nagognog2]

South Park was right. This shit must be written by Manatees.

[Bajeda]

Tryptamine, the parent molecule of AMT, is known to produce convulsions and death in animals.

I'm wondering what they are trying to say with this statement, or if even the writers knew wtf they were talking about.

I'm with Nag on this one.

[Beeker]

Sounds like your usual - fly by night drug dealer tried AMT at home and figured if he liked it everyone would. probably didn't even know what an MAOI was.

I hope they catch the dealer and string him up by his balls.

[English_T]

...it is just a way of including more 'death' statements in context with drugs....
Lets forget the fact that tobacco is a massive killer which claims more through death, disease than all drugs and wars combined! Nope, the same guys that write these reports probably smoke and walk past 1,000's ofcigarette 'dealers' everyday and do not blink an eye - Total Hypocracy.

Between 1950 and 2000, 6.3 million people - close to the current population of London* - have been killed by tobacco across the UK.

[enquirewithin]

This is not the first death to be attributed to AMT.

[Beeker]

This article is from 2003 ... thought I'd seen it before.

[rxbandit]

really, hmm it popped up on google news as being a very recent article.

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lol

[grandbaby]

Headline: War On Drugs Claims Another Victim.

So it goes, right?

[JDreaming]

There's been kind of a lot of AMT deaths by this point... I don't really get the attraction of a tryptamine that acts like high-powered speed. If I wanted an amphetamine-like experience, I wouldn't be investigating tryptamine research chemicals. Seems like one of the less attractive _ _ T's to me.

That said, it's all the dealer's fault. You call a drug with overdose potential "ecstacy" and sell it to a bunch of kids who have an understanding amongst themselves that "you can't OD on Ecstacy" and what do you think is going to happen come Saturday night?

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attraction is its so much more fun than any other drugs. don't knock shit u havent tried

[snapper]

It has to be old, since AMT is schedule 1 in the US and it says it is not scheduled. Tryptamine causes no effects in people or animals as far as SWIM knows... SWIM would certainly be pissed off if there was AMT in what SWIM though was an MDMA tablet. This is why SWIM never uses pills sold by drug dealers. SWIM doesn't like not knowing what SWIM is taking.... 6-8 hours of stimulation on MDMA is very different from 18 hours awake on AMT.

[Orchid_Suspiria]

Well theres been alot more deaths contributed to alcohol than AMT or most other chemicals for that matter,but good ole alcohol won't ever receive this kind of report.

[podge]

Originally Posted by Orchid_Suspiria

Well theres been alot more deaths contributed to alcohol than AMT or most other chemicals for that matter,but good ole alcohol won't ever receive this kind of report.

True indeed. But usually most deaths from alcohol happen due to year's of heavy use. While AMT may prove fatal if dosed incorrectly after one use. Making the purchase of untested pill's from dealer's even dodgier than usual.

[JDreaming]

Yeah while it's necessary that we hold alcohol accountable as the potentially deadly drug that it is, and while the legality of alcohol should make a legal system consider legality for any drug... somehow I think if AMT were being taken on the scale that alcohol is taken on, it'd probably generate a crapload of ODs and horror stories.

[snapper]

Yes. AMT is not benign and can be dangerous when mixed with other substances or overdosed on. SWIM has found it to carry a strong body load which could easily be dangerous. One combination which could be disasterous is alcohol and AMT. Imagine someone getting drunk while on it - SWIM has known many a speedfreak and cokehead to drink prodigous amounts of alcohol while using.
The biggest danger of these drugs is ingesting them without knowing what they are, but irresponsible use of AMT is dangerous. That said, alcohol can be bad too, but it is harder to drink oneself to death than take too much of a small dose of powder.

[English_T]

I think in the states you have Research Chemicals available (or at least used to be available) - which are not available in the UK - all were blanket banned due to a 'lack of knowledge of their effects'. Actually, just found this:
http://www.mdma.net/uk/2005.html
...unreal,this guy got 410 years!! You have some REAL NASTY sentences in the USA!

[samadhi_smiles]

Originally Posted by rxbandit

either an orange or off-white powder.

Our monkey has been getting pure white sparkly aMT...don't know what they are on about!

[snapper]

AMT turns yellow - brown as it ages.

[samadhi_smiles]

in what sort of time frame?

[rxbandit]

"MeO-DMT can cause a short-lived but powerful "trip". Heavy doses, or overdoses, have been known to trigger undesirable physical and psychological symptoms including profound anxiety, "bad trips", overheating of the body, and even death. " - from English T's linked article.

has 5-meo dmt been linked to ANY deaths? this really strikes me as outlandish.

[samadhi_smiles]

wasn't it linked to a death when combined with an MAOI?

There are several reports of seizures and convulsions with overdoses.

[JDreaming]

5-MeO-DMT can very easily lead to situations of "ego death", where the user believes they have died when actually they have not... but I have not read of any cases where a 5-MeO-DMT overdose lead to actual death, especially without another drug being involved.

[radiometer]

Anyone else find the name "Jason Clewis" ironic in the context of this story?

[Nagognog2]

I think they left out an 'L' in there.

I've never heard of 5-MeO-DMT causing death. And I've heard reports of people using amount that surprised me that they didn't keel over dead with their heart running down the road on little, sticky feet!